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Earth’s quasi-moon Asteroid Kamo'oalewa likely blasted out of this giant Moon crater
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLess than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid, scientists say they have determined...
Webb Captures Top of Iconic Horsehead Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
LiveScience· 3 days agoThis image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of...
Bright Object Seen Breaking Apart High Above Parts of New York
New Jersey 101.5 FM· 3 days agoThere have been quite a few otherworldly objects observed above the skies of New York, and the most...
Japan’s space junk cleaner closes in on its target
The Register· 4 days agoAsia In Brief Japan's effort to start a business disposing of space junk is off to a promising start, after the ADRAS-J satellite spotted its first target and sent back images. Launched in February ...
Fact Check: Blurry NASA Photo Allegedly Shows Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan. Here's What We Learned
Snopes via Yahoo News· 4 days agoUnlike Earth, however, the liquid on Titan's surface is composed of hydrocarbons including methane...
NASA Develops Tiny Yet Mighty 36-Pixel Sensor
PetaPixel· 2 days agoWhile NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping astronomers craft 122-megapixel photos 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, the agency’s newest camera...
X-ray satellite XMM-Newton sees 'space clover' in a new light
Phys.org· 14 hours agoStudying these structures, collectively called ORCs (odd radio circles), in a different kind of...
Animation Shows Project Lyra's Ridiculous Maneuver To Catch Interstellar Asteroid
IFLScience· 13 hours 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 per second, or 85,700 ...
The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing—And We’re Not Ready
Scientific American· 7 days agoThe sun is ramping up for a big year. In one sense it already had a big year, thanks to the April 8...
NASA Mars imagery captures auroras covering planet
Newsweek· 1 day agoA Mars orbiter has snapped spectacular aurora light shows rippling across the Red Planet's atmosphere, stretching across the entire globe. Just like Earth, Mars skies light up in a kaleidoscope ...
