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Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 4 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 ...
New discovery challenges existing theories on how celestial bodies are formed
Courthouse News Service· 7 days agoDuring a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as “Dinky,” in November 2023, the spacecraft...
NASA’s DART mission punched the Didymos asteroid in 2022 — now it’s time to go back
The Verge· 5 days agoThe European Space Agency (ESA) is running some of the final tests required to launch its Hera...
How a declassified mission may reinforce West’s worry over China’s space power
South China Morning Post· 23 hours agoThis was a mission that took place in January 2022, but has only now been revealed after recently...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 5 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.
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists...
NASA Lucy mission: A space rock got a moon after sun-driven quake
CNN.com· 4 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 ...
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
SPACE.com· 5 days agoThe probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and...
Double-moon asteroid described for the first time - Science
Weston Forum· 2 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 ...
Asteroid Dinky's 'Selam' is actually 2 moons fused together: NASA
Interesting Engineering· 6 days agoNASA's Lucy spacecraft stuns scientists with the discovery of two intertwined moons orbiting asteroid Dinkinesh.