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Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
New York Post· 7 days agoWe may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our...
French collective calls for Cannes Film Festival workers to strike
United Press International via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoLeft to right, Jason Schwartzman, Wes Anderson, Scarlett Johansson and Jake Ryan attend the "...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 7 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...
'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 ...
How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?
Astronomy Magazine· 3 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 ...
Stellar Graveyard Secrets: Astronomers Solve White Dwarf Heavy Metal Mystery
SciTechDaily· 12 hours agoRecent research reveals that white dwarfs consume nearby planetesimals due to a “natal kick” during...
Animation Shows Project Lyra's Ridiculous Maneuver To Catch Interstellar Asteroid
IFLScience· 5 days agoIn 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our Sun at 38.3 kilometers per second (23.8 miles ...
NASA's chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here's why
NPR· 22 hours agoNo one has returned to the moon since. And while NASA has done astonishing things over and over...
Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers
New Scientist· 4 days agoSimulations of the crust of early Earth show that cycles of pressure caused by geysers or tidal...