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New contest lets you name Earth's 1st 'quasi-moon' for free. Here's how to enter.
Live Science via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoA new public competition will allow a lucky astronomy enthusiast to name one of Earth's tiny...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
LiveScience· 6 days agoMars may face more than twice as many close encounters with potentially dangerous asteroids as Earth...
Asteroid’s double moon points to a complex history
EarthSky· 4 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...
NASA will give a Hubble Telescope status update today. Should we be worried?
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIf you're hung up on that brief mention of servicing the spacecraft in orbit, as astronauts famously...
Watch a meteor’s incredible light show above Spain and Portugal
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoA meteor clocking in at 100,000 mph blazed across Spain and Portugal over the weekend, creating a...
Forget Mars — This Unseen Frontier Is Worth Quintillions Of Dollars (18 Zeroes)
Benzinga· 4 days agoPer Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State...
Space snippets: First Chang’e samples, Starship ‘lands’, Starliner docks
Cosmos· 17 hours agoReports from China indicate the Chang’e 6 mission is heading back to Earth with 2kg in rock samples...
Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoAn interstellar probe could help scientists answer fundamental questions about how the Sun...
Double-moon asteroid described for the first time - Science
Weston Forum· 5 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 ...
Chile to install world’s largest astronomy camera on the edge of Atacama desert
WSAU Wausau· 3 days agoSANTIAGO (Reuters) - With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital camera ...