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Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
SPACE.com· 6 hours agoThe dotted white streak cutting across this photo of a faraway galaxy might seem like a nuisance for...
New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
Asteroid being captured by NASA worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 would make everyone on Earth a...
UNILAD· 6 days agoWhile the mission may have set off many months ago now, people remain intrigued by one particular...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 2 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and...
Hubble discovers 1,000 new asteroids thanks to photobombing | Digital Trends
Digital Trends· 6 days agoRecently, researchers have gotten creative and found a way to use Hubble data to detect previously...
Hubble Has Accidentally Discovered Over a Thousand Asteroids
Universe Today· 1 day agoThanks to an international team of citizen scientists, with the help of astronomers from the...
Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids
Newswise· 7 days agoCataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint and they don't stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the Sun....
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 1 day agoEarth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar...
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)
SPACE.com· 1 hour agoTo write that the Hubble Space Telescope is legendary would be an understatement. In the 34 years...
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have...