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NASA's Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh's dynamic history
Colorado Springs Gazette· 7 days agoA little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by NASA's Lucy spacecraft - has a...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 7 days agoTake, for example, asteroid Dinkinesh, the first target of the NASA mission Lucy. As the spacecraft approached, the team were surprised to see an unexpected moon appear around ...
NASA’s DART mission punched the Didymos asteroid in 2022 — now it’s time to go back
The Verge· 6 days agoThe European Space Agency (ESA) is running some of the final tests required to launch its Hera...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 6 days agoAn asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form.
Forget Mars — This Unseen Frontier Is Worth Quintillions Of Dollars (18 Zeroes)
Benzinga· 2 days agoThis mission is a significant step toward a new frontier in space exploration: the vast and...
Chinese Probe Achieves First-Ever Blast Off From Moon’s Far Side In Daring Rock Return
Forbes· 1 day agoChina’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has launched from the moon’s far side, the first-ever vehicle to do so....
Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 5 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 sun that are typically ...
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists...
Rare fossil of adolescent Tyrannosaurus - 'Teen Rex'- found by US kids
Reuters via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoA rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota's badlands - a...
NASA Lucy mission: A space rock got a moon after sun-driven quake
CNN.com· 5 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 ...