Asteroid ‘Dinky,’ visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, gave birth to its own moon
by Scientists may have learned the history of the bee contact-binary moon orbiting an asteroid 152830 Dinkinswhich was the first space stop for NASA Lucy spaceship. …
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Where did Earth’s water come from? Maybe this ancient asteroid family will help us find out
A primitive family asteroids giving astronomers a glimpse into the past as they try to unravel the history of these tiny space rocks that are …
AI discovers more than 27,000 asteroids that were overlooked in old telescope images
More than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system have been observed in existing telescope images – but thanks to a new AI-powered algorithm, we now …
Earth’s strange ‘quasi-moon’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment that has erupted from a large lunar crater
Earth’s “quasi-moon” likely moved away from the actual moon recently in the solar system’s history, a new study suggests. Kamo’oalewa, a 131 to 328-foot-wide (40 …
How Earth’s new Rubin Observatory will usher in the next era of asteroid space missions
The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will never leave Earth itself, but the highly detailed “big picture” view of the cosmos it will offer scientists …