Solar System Asteroid Belt and Spacecraft

- OSIRIS-APEX prepares for 1st close solar encounter on way to asteroid Apophis
  Space via Yahoo News· 2 days ago
  A remnant of the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, scientists think Apophis...
- Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteroid Belt - NASA
  NASA· 5 days ago
  This illustration made on Nov. 26, 1974, by Rick Giudice shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft traveling through the asteroid belt between ...
- Asteroid will pass in front of bright star Betelgeuse to produce a rare eclipse visible to millions
  Associated Press· 15 hours ago
  The star is Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation Orion. The asteroid is Leona, a slowly...
- 50 years ago, Pioneer 10 visited Jupiter and just kept going
  The Register· 3 days ago
  Pioneer 10, the first of NASA...from Cape Canaveral on March 3, 1972. The spacecraft was powered by...
- 'First light': NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away
  ABC7 News· 2 weeks ago
  The spacecraft will spend the next six years traveling about 2.2 billion miles (3.6 billion...
- Then and Now: Our Earliest Close-Ups of the Planets Compared to Today's Best Shots
  Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 days ago
  For centuries, astronomers were limited to ground-based observations of the planets, but now we use ...
- “First Light” for NASA’s Psyche Mission: Initial Images and a Solar Surprise
  SciTechDaily· 1 day ago
  The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on October 13. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s cameras. NASA’s ...
- Meteoroids may have brought building block of life to Earth's birthplace
  Newsweek· 4 days ago
  Nitrogen compounds, including ammonium salts, may have made their way to Earth via tiny meteoroids...
- Psyche gamma-ray instrument hums to life, marking next generation for space exploration
  Phys.org· 1 day ago
  A subset of the GRS instrument team, consisting of John Goldsten, Patrick Peplowski, Morgan Burks ...
- Ho, ho, ho! Gift ideas for stargazers in 2023 - WTOP News
  WTOP Washington· 3 hours ago
  As a first step for someone new to astronomy, I recommend getting them a magazine subscription to either (or both) Astronomy or Sky and Telescope (S&T). An added bonus is ...