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China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid
China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid A new paper under peer review by the Chinese-language Journal of De...
Source: Biztoc.com
Should Scientists Have Research "Reserves" on the Moon?
The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary scientists to study. As space missions continue to ...
Source: Universe Today
Spin-Reversing Comet May Face Self-Destruction
Comets are known for providing breathtaking observations of their long and shiny tails when they travel too close to the Sun. This happens because com...
Source: Universe Today
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'' season 4 opener is a pulpy sci-fi joy packed with dinosaurs, martians, and a 5th planet where the asteroid belt should be
Dinosaurs, Martians, and the fate of the human race? This could be more than your standard day at the office for the Enterprise crew.
Source: Space.com
After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet. The discovery may help us defend the planet some day
Astronomers discovered that a near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet that could help scientists identify more hidden comets and improve planetary def...
Source: Space.com
Space Launch Costs Have Fallen 96% Since 1960. They Aren’t Done Yet.
Cambridge University researchers say orbital solar power, asteroid mining, and space-based manufacturing could soon make business sense. The post Spac...
Source: Singularity Hub
NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Captured a Time-Lapse Video of its Mars Flyby
NASA's Psyche mission used a gravity assist maneuver at Mars to gain velocity and adjust its trajectory to its eventual target. The asteroid 16 P...
Source: Universe Today
Astronomers Catch a "Dark Comet" Red-Handed
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a space rock that will remind us of that fact....
Source: Universe Today
800 Million Years Ago, a Catastrophic Asteroid Breakup Rained Fire on the Inner Solar System
On Earth, it’s hard to track events that reshape its surface, as the surface itself is being reshaped constantly by weather and tectonic or volcanic u...
Source: Universe Today
Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys
Pablo SobronSETI Institute This proposal explores a new class of reconnaissance spacecraft that map minerals from orbit using Raman spectrosc...
Source: NASA
Researchers Narrow Down the Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs
An international team of Earth scientists has narrowed down the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. According to ...
Source: Universe Today
The Case of the Sun's Missing Silver
Astronomers have solved a decades old puzzle about the Sun's missing silver, not by finding something new, but by modelling something old far mor...
Source: Universe Today
Scientists told them, 'No, it's too dangerous,' but they did it anyway: Inside Japan's super-close asteroid flyby
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned spectacular images of a near-Earth asteroid following a super-close flyby on July 5, but heated debate was ...
Source: Space.com
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by...
Source: NASA
NASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient Asteroids
A meteorite recovered immediately upon its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024, is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemi...
Source: NASA
After a Billion Kilometres, China's Asteroid Hunter Finally Arrives
After chasing a small asteroid across a billion kilometres of space, China's Tianwen-2 probe has finally caught up, closing to within twenty kilo...
Source: Universe Today
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft chased Earth’s tiny quasi-moon for 400 days and 1 billion kilometres — but just as it returned the first close-up image, new evidence challenged the leading theory that Kamoʻoalewa is a fragment blasted from the Moon
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has reached Kamoʻoalewa and returned the first close-range image of the small asteroid that keeps pace with Earth. The pi...
Source: Space Daily
An Ancient Stellar Passage Altered the Orbits of Comets We See Today
A recent study out of the Planetary Science Institute notes that the close passage of the star HD 7977 may have triggered a cascade, sending long-peri...
Source: Universe Today
Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.
Engineers have just upgraded the software running a spacecraft 140 million kilometres away, then held their breath through two full reboots with an ei...
Source: Universe Today
Spacecraft confirmed to be approaching one of Earth's seven mysterious 'quasi-moons'
China's Tianwen-2 has reached Kamo'oalewa, snapping the first photos of Earth's quasi-moon and preparing a historic asteroid sample gra...
Source: TweakTown