Small asteroid impacted Earth recently - see an orbit animation

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by ...

Stadium-sized asteroid safely flies by Earth in orbit animation

Asteroid 2020 XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km ...
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Weird orbit of the James Webb telescope shown in NASA animation

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) orbit is a bit strange. Unlike the legendary Hubble telescope, which circles Earth, JWST will orbit the sun. But as this animation from NASA's Goddard Space ...
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Earth To Temporarily Capture A 'Mini-Moon' - See An Orbit Animation

Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. See an orbit ...
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Here’s How Stars Orbit Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Black holes continue to amaze us for an endless number of reasons. The celestial objects are furious feasters of gas and they send ripples through the fabric of spacetime. Now, in another ...
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Here's A NASA/SpaceX Animation Showing How America's Return To Putting People In Orbit Will Go

It's alarming to remember that no astronauts have been launched to orbit from the United States since 2011, when the ambitious but ultimately disappointing Space Shuttle fleet was retired. Sure, ...