Contact binary asteroids are common, but we've never seen one form. Now, researchers want to make...
Phys.org· 1 hour agoOne of the more interesting is to try to force two asteroids together to form a "contact binary"—the goal of a mission design put forward by a group of scientists from Cornell ...
New asteroid named after fossilised ‘baby’
Cosmos· 4 hours agoAt the start of November, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered a tiny satellite in orbit around the asteroid Dinkinesh. While the term ‘satellite’ is commonly used to describe ...
A Detailed Design for a Space Station at Sun-Earth L2
Universe Today· 1 day agoNew ideas in space exploration come from all corners, and, by and large, the community welcomes...
Odyssey's Top Science Discoveries - NASA
NASA· 2 hours agoEarly in Odyssey's mission, the orbiter mapped water signatures in the top 3 feet (1 meter) of the surface using its gamma-ray spectrometer suite,...
Study finds our galaxy’s black hole is altering space-time. Here’s what that means.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoIt wasn't even until four years ago that humanity caught the first glimpse of a black hole when...
SpaceX Starship, a Future Moon Base, and More Top Spaceflight Images From November
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoAs we turn the page on November, let’s embark on a visual journey through the stars and beyond,...
Super high energy particle falls to Earth, source a mystery | Digital Trends
Digital Trends· 5 days agoResearchers have detected one of the highest-energy particles ever falling to Earth. Cosmic rays are...
NASA postpones Dragonfly review, launch date
SpaceNews· 2 days agoCiting budget uncertainty, NASA is pushing back the launch of the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan by a year and postponing a key milestone in...
'First light': NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away
KSL Salt Lake City· 7 days agoThe tech demo could one day help NASA missions probe deeper into space and uncover more discoveries...
What we actually know about aliens, according to science
Washington Post· 5 days agoIt came from space, hurtling at tremendous speed: a mystery object, reddish, rocky, shaped like a...