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Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 6 days agoA 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive body orbiting the ...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPotentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into...
Asteroid’s double moon points to a complex history
EarthSky· 2 days agoA new study of asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam, led by researchers at Southwest Research Institute, shows a complex geological history for both...
Stunning 'parade of planets' image shows 6 worlds aligned over Earth
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA stunning photo of the recent "parade of planets" shows Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and...
Observatory To Host Discussion Of Extraterrestrial Objects
The Post-Journal· 5 days agoFREWSBURG – There has been a lot of activity in the solar system with recent solar flares and visits...
Shining light on the sun in the summer sky
The Republican· 8 hours agoMost of the rest belongs to Jupiter, so the sun in the center barely registers the gravitational tug of the other planets, moons,asteroids, comets and...
Forget Mars — This Unseen Frontier Is Worth Quintillions Of Dollars (18 Zeroes)
Benzinga· 3 days agoThe Psyche mission is about scientific discovery, but it also could usher in a new economic era...
How a declassified mission may reinforce West’s worry over China’s space power
South China Morning Post· 2 days agoEarth, but will pass safely by. This was a mission that took place in January 2022, but has only now...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 7 days agoWhen the Arecibo Observatory dish in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost a powerful radio telescope and a unique radar instrument to map the...