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Scientists Plan for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study ...
NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually...
PC Gamer via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe Pysche craft is around 226 million kilometres (140 million miles) away from Earth. It's...
Was asteroid Kamo’oalewa blasted from this moon crater?
EarthSky· 7 days agoMeet the lunar crater Giordano Bruno. It’s 13 miles (21 km) wide and located on the moon’s far side....
During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoEL chondrite meteorites come from the Athor family of asteroids, the progenitor of which was dumped...
Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 6 days agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary ...
We’ve Found Where On Our First Moon Our Second Moon Came From
IFLScience· 2 days agoThree years after evidence emerged that the quasi-moon known as Kamo’oalewa is formed from a chunk of Earth’s one true Moon, we may know just where it comes from. Until recently ...
Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNASA's DSOC experiment passed yet another milestone, interfacing with the Psyche spacecraft and...
What is NASA working on?
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe mission is expected to begin exploring the asteroid in 2029. Finding minerals NASA has started using modified U-2 spy planes to hunt for "strategic...
NASA’s Optical Comms Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles
NASA· 7 days agoWhile the asteroid-bound spacecraft doesn’t rely on optical communications to send data, the new...
What Caused Our First Interstellar Visitor's Non-Gravitational Acceleration?
IFLScience· 7 days agoIn 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our Sun at ...