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What's it like to have an asteroid named after you? Our night sky columnist Joe Rao explains
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSpace.com's night sky columnist Joe Rao explains what it was like to have asteroid 200009 Joerao...
Water molecules detected on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoUsing data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Southwest Research...
16th Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award is now open for entries
Digital Camera World via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAstronomy Photographer of the Year 2023. The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition in...
Water is discovered on an asteroid for the first time. It's a hint into how Earth formed.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoScientists have found more water in space - this time on an asteroid, a first-of-its-kind discovery....
Comet Leonard and Andromeda Galaxy dazzle in Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Digital Camera World via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAstronomy Photographer of the Year 14 A photograph of Comet Leonard’s disconnecting gas tail and an...
'Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA pair of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and Selam created with data collected by the...
The James Webb Space Telescope just found an asteroid by total accident, its smallest object yet
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBy accidentally finding a tiny Washington Monument-sized asteroid, the James Webb Space Telescope...
How asteroid Bennu caught NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft by surprise and nearly killed it along the...
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA mass of gravel and dirt ejected from the surface of asteroid Bennu by the touchdown of NASA's...
How Astronomers Found Albert the Asteroid After 89 Years
SYFY via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFrom The Black Dahlia to the nature of dark matter and dark energy, nothing captures the attention...
Defunct NASA mission helps find water on asteroids for first time
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA NASA mission that was retired in 2022 has helped scientists detect water on the surface of two...