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The first image of the asteroid that will greet Earth on June 27 - Space and Astronomy
Hardwood Paroxysm· 10 hours agoThe first image was taken of the asteroid referred to by the abbreviation (415029) 2011 UL21, which...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
NASA’s Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System
Forbes· 14 hours agoIt’s humbling to realize that we are the first sentient beings to successfully sample Bennu, a...
Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOn approaching the Red Planet, Psyche...in Martian gravity and be slingshot around the planet. An...
NASA’s Sci-Fi Thrusters: Psyche’s Electric Blue Journey to the Asteroid Belt
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoNASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on course to explore an asteroid by 2029, using innovative solar-powered...
Doctor Who Teases Its Strangest Villain Yet
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 days agoImage: BBC The cast of Jurassic World 4 expands. Street Fighter gets its first logo. Plus, Doctor Who hypes its strangest villain yet. To me, my...
Is Pluto a planet? The experts break it down.
Astronomy Magazine· 38 minutes agoAstronomy.com: We were going to write something new about Pluto here. In 1930 a young astronomer from Kansas, employed as an observer at Lowell...
Astronomers develop new observation technique to mitigate asteroid risks
China Daily· 2 days agoA collaborative research team from China and Ukraine has been monitoring near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) through regular observations to attain accurate positioning and precise ...
Finding The Age Of A Contact Binary "Moon"
Universe Today· 6 days agoThere are millions of asteroids floating around the solar system. A recent example of one of these weird configurations was discovered when Lucy, NASA’s mission to the Trojan ...
Mars's Doomed Moon Phobos Might Not Be What We Thought
IFLScience· 1 day agoA team of researchers analyzing previously unpublished images of Mars's moon Phobos have found hints that the unusual moon is not what we once thought. Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos are a little ...
