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Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away
SPACE.com· 2 days agoLate last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made ...
Companies offer proposals for Apophis asteroid missions
SpaceNews· 5 days agoCompanies ranging from Blue Origin to a startup are proposing concepts for missions to visit an asteroid before it makes a very close flyby of Earth in five years. The < ...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 5 days agoEarth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar...
Was asteroid Kamo’oalewa blasted from this moon crater?
EarthSky· 3 days agoMeet the lunar crater Giordano Bruno. It’s 13 miles (21 km) wide and located on the moon’s far side....
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe mission was the first time the U.S. brought back a piece of an asteroid and a big moment for the...
Scientists Plan for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study ...
Bear-tracking study celebrates citizen science in Alberta's grizzly country
CBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoA new study suggests citizen science could help restore Alberta's grizzly bear numbers, but critics...
New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoEL chondrite meteorites come from the Athor family of asteroids, the progenitor of which was dumped...
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
LiveScience· 5 days agoA fast-spinning asteroid that orbits in time with Earth may be a wayward chunk of the moon. Now, scientists think they know exactly which lunar crater it came from. A new ...