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Consider the dramatic visual and gravitational consequences if a large asteroid struck and fractured the Moon.
If you missed Earth's ' mini Moon ' last year, chances are you might be able to spot another asteroid today. The space rock ...
In a blog post published last week, NASA revealed that the mission team noted a drop in fuel pressure of Psyche's propulsion ...
Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.
The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...
NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...
May 11: SpaceX launches NASA’s TRACERS mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry twin synchronized spacecraft to orbit as ...
EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...
Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...
"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...
Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.
New research overturns the idea that dinosaurs were already dying out before the asteroid hit.