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NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications demonstration transmits data over 140 million miles
Phys.org· 3 hours agoThis achievement provides a glimpse into how spacecraft could use optical communications in the...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids | CNN
CNN.com· 3 days agoWhen the e-scooter company Matt Gialich used to work for had to pause production owing to a shortage...
Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 6 hours agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary...
Your Cheat Sheet to the Solar System's Oort Cloud
Sci Fi Wire· 6 days agoSYFY’s The Ark takes viewers along for the ride on a one-way trip to Proxima centauri, a star 4.2 light-years from here. It’s a staggering trip which...
NASA shared timeline for when $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid will be brought to Earth
UNILAD· 1 week ago"Teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is...
Reunited and it feels so good: Voyager 1 is talking sense again
Pasadena Star-News· 2 days agoReconnecting with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was all of that for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 2 days agoEarth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar...
Hubble discovers 1,000 new asteroids thanks to photobombing | Digital Trends
Digital Trends· 1 week agoRecently, researchers have gotten creative and found a way to use Hubble data to detect previously...
Ice Deposits on Ceres Might Only Be a Few Thousand Years Old
Universe Today· 1 week agoThe dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice. Astronomers thought the ice...