asteroids
- plural of asteroid.
Example Sentences
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The encounter served as a practice run for Lucy's future visits to the Trojan asteroids, beginning with its flyby of Eurybates on Aug. 12, 2027.
From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026
It will need that money and multiples more to achieve Mr. Musk’s ambition of colonizing Mars and mining asteroids.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
New asteroids and distant objects are being discovered all the time as our observing capabilities become more detailed, which should gradually shed more light on what might be out there.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Musk plans to use the extra money he is raising to expand SpaceX's current activities but also to fund new future ventures: mining asteroids, colonising Mars and putting AI data centres in space.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Finding asteroids became a popular activity in the 1800s, and by the end of the century about a thousand were known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
