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New images reveal that this asteroid is actually two conjoined space rocks. They form a peanut-shaped object called a 'contact binary'
On July 5, a Japanese spacecraft flew past an odd-looking asteroid named Torifune. The probe snapped photos, which it beamed ...
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‘Robots will do the job’: NASA's next alien-hunting telescope won't need astronauts for repairs
NASA's next flagship space telescope could change not only how scientists search for life beyond Earth, but also how spacecraft are maintained in orbit. The agency's proposed Habitable Worlds ...
"From command and control to autonomous systems operating in GPS-denied environments, many of today's most complex missions ...
A valuable NASA satellite observatory is falling to Earth faster than scientists expected. It’s called the Neil Gehrels Swift ...
Chinese researchers have captured the first-ever close-up images of the rare “mini-moon” that’s tracing circles around the ...
The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail ...
A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', ...
The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...
A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...
It implies or requires that the angrite parent body had to be big, but the question is, where is it now?” CU Boulder ...
Astronaut Sophie Adenot captured an unbelievable aurora “stretching as far as the eye could see”, bolstering her impressive portfolio snapped aboard the International Space Station When you purchase ...
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