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Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 6 days agoA 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive body orbiting ...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
LiveScience· 4 days agoMars may face more than twice as many close encounters with potentially dangerous asteroids as Earth...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 7 days agoAn asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form.
Asteroid’s double moon points to a complex history
EarthSky· 2 days agoA new study of asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam, led by researchers at Southwest Research Institute, shows a complex geological history for both...
Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat
Futurism via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat's Dinky to You Last year, NASA imagery taken by the Lucy spacecraft revealed that a tiny Moon...
Look! NASA’s Lucy Mission Stumbled Upon An Asteroid With Planet-Like Features
Inverse· 2 days agoThe Lucy mission, named after the famous 3 million year old hominid fossil, is slated to visit the...
Why telling time on the moon is a conundrum for NASA
CNN via AOL· 5 days agoThis week, learn why a lunar time scale is needed before humans return to the moon, meet the faces of Scotland’s ancient past, spy “salty licorice” cats,...
Sharper Than Ever – Io’s Volcanic Surfaces Revealed by New Telescope Technology
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter’s moon Io at a resolution never before...