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NASA Lucy mission: A space rock got a moon after sun-driven quake
CNN.com· 6 days agoAstronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew by an asteroid named Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary — two smaller space rocks that touch each other — orbiting ...
Mid-cenury dreams, today's realities
McCook Daily Gazette· 6 days agoAn atomically charged cold war rested national security and no less than the future of democracy on the shoulders of our efforts in space. Current military planners view space as the new battlefield ...
Double-moon asteroid described for the first time - Science
Weston Forum· 3 days agoA team of researchers used NASA’s Lucy space probe to discover a split moon orbiting an asteroid for the first time. “It’s the first time we’ve seen a system like this,” said planetary scientist ...
Voyager 1’s Revival Offers Inspiration for Everyone on Earth
Scientific American· 7 days agoNASA has reestablished touch with Voyager 1, the most distant thing built by our species, now...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Complexity of Asteroid Dinkinesh
ExtremeTech· 6 days agoThe last few years have been an exciting time for studying asteroids. NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on course to investigate Jupiter's trojan asteroids later this decade, but it swung past an interesting ...