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TechCrunch Space: Launch pad decongestion
TechCrunch· 13 hours agoNear-Earth asteroid, computer artwork. Image Credits: Science Photo Library - ANDRZEJ...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 7 days agoWith the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. A couple of years ago ...
How to Catch the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, Leftover Debris from Halley's Comet
Sci Fi Wire· 5 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 ...
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,...
French collective calls for Cannes Film Festival workers to strike
United Press International via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoLeft to right, Jason Schwartzman, Wes Anderson, Scarlett Johansson and Jake Ryan attend the "...
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 ...
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 ...
The best movies on Prime Video right now
Mashable· 4 days agoTo keep you from having to scroll endlessly through the Prime Video app hunting for something great, (the worst, amirite?), these are our picks, aka the...
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...