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A Strange, Old Asteroid Still Orbits Our Sun — Can This NASA Mission Find Where It Came From?
Inverse· 3 days agoIf a novel chronicled the Solar System’s history in a thousand or so pages (roughly the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy), the scene NASA’s Psyche ...
How asteroid Bennu got its odd name and other facts
Mashable· 7 hours agoOver the past seven years, a NASA spacecraft has put 4.4 billion miles on the odometer as it traveled into deep space to get to Bennu, an asteroid the length of the Empire State Building. On ...
NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid
NBC NEWS· 3 hours agoPlanet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid. A...
NASA On Cusp Of ‘Asteroid Autumn’ With Three Exciting Missions
Forbes· 3 days agoThe launch window for NASA’s Psyche mission opens on Thursday, Oct. 5 and will see spacecraft set on...
Psyche mission to explore priceless asteroid
EarthSky· 23 hours agoPsyche is an asteroid floating in our solar system’s asteroid belt between the 4th planet Mars and 5th planet Jupiter ...
NASA Probe to Drop Off Asteroid Samples After 7 Years in Deep Space
Futurism via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe asteroid is interesting because it's extraordinarily old, with material dating back to at least...
How Sarah Al Amiri Is Launching the UAE Into the Asteroid Belt
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIllustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastWhen Sarah Al Amiri grew up in the United Arab...
You can see the Zodiacal light this week! Here's what that is and where you can see it
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 7 days agoThere is also 0% illumination from the new Moon. This setup will give us a great opportunity to search for the zodiacal light! The zodiacal light is also known as false dawn, and it is a triangular ...
Historic space photo of the week: Voyager 2 spies a storm on Saturn 42 years ago
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoVoyager 2 measured winds blowing at Saturn's equator at a whopping 1,100 mph (1,770 km/h). Voyager 2...
Astronauts explain why no human has visited the moon in 50 years — and the reasons why are...
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoWebb Space Telescope, the giant rocket project called Space Launch System, and far-flung missions to...