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Boeing's Starliner launch will be the 1st astronaut flight on an Atlas V rocket. How did NASA and...
SPACE.com· 3 hours agoAtlas V is a venerable rocket, but it's about to break new territory: Carrying humans instead of...
This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoScheduled to launch in October, Hera's main mission is to fly to the binary asteroid system called...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 6 days agoFor the first time, scientists have traced an asteroid to its exact place of origin—a particular crater on the moon. Unlike most near-Earth asteroids,...
How to Catch the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, Leftover Debris from Halley's Comet
Sci Fi Wire· 4 days agoThe 2021 disaster movie Asteroid (streaming now on Peacock) is just one of many cinematic stories...
Your May 2024 Horoscope Brings Pluto Retrograde, Gemini Season, and a Sagittarius Full Moon
Allure via Yahoo News· 7 days agoPluto, the makeover planet, kicks things off by going retrograde, sparking changes in our beauty and...
NASA's chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here's why
NPR· 12 hours agoNo one has returned to the moon since. And while NASA has done astonishing things over and over...
How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoHow closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids compared to the density of the main belt? Jupiter’s Trojans are asteroids that share the gas giant’s orbit ...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 7 days agoToday the Asteroid Institute announced it has used advanced computational methods to discover 27,500...
Dinkinesh's Moonlet is Only 2-3 Million Years Old
Universe Today· 2 days agoLast November, NASA’s Lucy mission conducted a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinish, one of the Main Belt asteroids it will investigate as it makes its way to ...
'Baby asteroid' just a toddler in space years
Science Daily· 5 days agoThe team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, based only on dynamics ...