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Stellar Graveyard Secrets: Astronomers Solve White Dwarf Heavy Metal Mystery
SciTechDaily· 3 hours agoRecent research reveals that white dwarfs consume nearby planetesimals due to a “natal kick” during...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 6 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 ...
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
SPACE.com· 4 days agoWhen NASA's Lucy mission passed by the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that Dinkinesh had a companion — a little moonlet that astronomers soon named ...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
7 News Miami· 4 days agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
Scientists determine near-Earth asteroid was blasted from moon, leaving crater
AOL· 4 days agoScientists at the University of Arizona have discovered that asteroid 2016 HO3 was likely blasted...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
New York Post· 6 days agoWe may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our...
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...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
AccuWeather· 4 days agoThe Giordano Bruno crater matched all of the criteria determined by impact simulations in the study. (CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk ...
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,...