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This Chinese tracking satellite can be used to hunt killer asteroids: scientists
South China Morning Post· 5 hours agoEarth, but will pass safely by. This was a mission that took place in January 2022, but has only now...
Forget Mars — This Unseen Frontier Is Worth Quintillions Of Dollars (18 Zeroes)
Benzinga· 9 hours agoThe Psyche mission is about scientific discovery, but it also could usher in a new economic era...
Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 3 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 ...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPotentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via AOL· 3 days agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Boeing to launch space rocket today despite warnings of potentially 'catastrophic' mission
MSN News· 3 days agoBoeing’s Starliner is set to launch today, despite warnings from NASA that the mission could...
Double-moon asteroid described for the first time - Science
Weston Forum· 21 hours 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 ...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 5 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 Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System
Forbes· 7 days agoIt’s humbling to realize that we are the first sentient beings to successfully sample Bennu, a...