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Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
WKBT La Crosse· 22 hours agoScientists call the asteroid Kamo’oalewa, a name derived from a Hawaiian creation chant that alludes...
Researchers just found more than 1,000 new solar system objects hiding in plain sight
LiveScience· 3 days agoMore than 1,000 never-before-seen space rocks have been discovered in the solar system after...
From coal gasification to robot space mining, small towns fall prey to PR promises
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHOYT LAKES — Early this year, a friendly man wearing glasses and a corporate polo shirt approached...
Novel calculations peg age of 'baby' asteroid
Phys.org· 2 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 ...
Earth's near miss with an asteroid that left 14-mile wide crater on Moon
Daily Express· 3 days agoSpace rock 2016 HJ03 - also known as Kamo'oalewa - is very different to other asteroids that are...
NASA demonstrates space network speeds of up to 267 Mbps — Deep Space Optical Communications stretch...
Tom's Hardware via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCurrently, the craft is "healthy and stable" on its way to an asteroid belt between Mars and...
NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually...
PC Gamer via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Pysche craft is around 226 million kilometres (140 million miles) away from Earth. It's...
Kill the sun! How wild thought experiments drive scientific discovery
New Scientist· 23 hours agoDespite their confusion, my colleagues indulged me and my partner in destruction, our US editor...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 2 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,...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 2 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 ...