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Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Scientists race to design craft to reach the enigmatic ‘Oumuamua
Astronomy Magazine· 17 hours ago1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) was discovered in October 2017; shortly after, it was determined to be the...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 3 days agoFortunately, a new, next-generation radar system called ngRADAR is under development, to eventually be installed at the 100-meter (328 ft.) Green...in...
Moment of Science: The Sun
WWSB Sarasota· 7 days agoWe’ve tried to douse the Sun with water in a previous episode, but because water is two-thirds hydrogen, that fuel made the Sun twice as massive and 16...
The rush to return humans to the Moon and build lunar bases could threaten opportunities for...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThese craters are basically pits of eternal darkness. And it’s not just dark down there,...
‘Phantom Orbit’ and ‘Who Owns the Moon?’ Review: Conflict Overhead
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoWhen we look past the orbits of our artificial satellites, to the moon and beyond, we see more room...
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Universe, According to the Internet's Favorite Astronomer
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoPhilip Plait is a science communicator and astronomer, one who was part of NASA’s Hubble Space...
How Much Water Would a Self-Sustaining Moonbase Need?
Universe Today· 3 days agoWhile resupplies from Earth would work for a time, eventually the lunar base would have to become self-sustaining? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of researchers ...
What does a meteorite taste like? Someone found out and bottled it.
Mashable· 21 hours agoMaxime Girardin descends from a long line of winemakers in France's Burgundy region dating back at...
New Webb image isn't just stunning. It shattered a record.
Mashable· 21 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope — with a giant mirror that catches extremely faint light, along with its ability to view a type of light (infrared) that can pass through huge clouds of cosmic ...
