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Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. When NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, scientists discovered something surprising about the asteroids surface wasnt smooth like many were expecting but was covered in large boulders. Now, a team of physicists think they know why. Science News | Hopping Space Dust Makes Asteroids Look Rougher: Study.

Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. According to a new study from physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder, like corn kernels pop in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids. Science News | Research Suggests Hopping Space Dust Makes Asteroids Look Rougher.

The US space agency has announced 12 winning images, including a shot inside a massive wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Federal Airfield, California.

The small asteroid will fly by Earth with a close approach estimated to be 23% of the Moon’s proximate distance to our planet.

A small asteroid the size of a bus will make an extremely close approach to Earth on Thursday (July 7), passing within just 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers) – or about 23 percent of the average distance between Earth and the Moon. And just a few

House-Sized Asteroid Set to Have Extreme Near-Miss With Earth Today

The asteroid, called 2022 NF, will come within 54,843.9 miles of our planet - just over a quarter of the distance of the Moon - at around 14:45 BST, according to NASA.

The space rock was only discovered on Monday this week, when scientists realized it would skim past our planet at over 25,000 miles per hour.

Astronomers detected a small asteroid called 2022 NF that will pass within 23% of the distance from Earth to the moon tonight.

Space agencies from around the world actively track what are called near-Earth asteroids. These are asteroids that are located within Earth’s vicinity.