Tag: asteroids

March 7, 2025 at 9:49 am

Tucked Away In The Payload Bay Of The Most Recent SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Is A Private Spacecraft That Aims To Mine Minerals From Asteroids In Deep Space

Source: Pexels/SpaceX

A future in which our precious metals are obtained from space is almost a reality.

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February 14, 2025 at 3:49 pm

European Space Agency Launches Their Hera Spacecraft To Investigate The Wreckage Of An Intentional NASA Asteroid Crash

Source: Shutterstock

A space-based crash site investigation sounds incredible. 

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February 13, 2025 at 12:55 pm

New Paper On Fast Radio Bursts Proposes Potential Explanation For These Super-Massive Explosions In Space

Source: Shutterstock

The amount of energy in FRBs is wild!

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January 4, 2025 at 9:49 am

NASA’s Planetary Defense Telescope (NEOWISE) Crashes Into The Atmosphere After An Impressive Life Of Nearly 15 Years

NASA Neowise Planetary Defense Satellite

What an incredible mission.

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November 21, 2024 at 3:48 pm

Unusual Object Studied By James Webb Space Telescope Found To Be Emitting Jets Of Gas In Never Before Seen Display

Source: James Webb Space Telescope

Space is filled with unusual things that we still don’t understand. 

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November 15, 2024 at 3:48 pm

NASA Smashed An Asteroid, And Now The Debris Is Headed Right For Us

Source: Rawpixel

Hopefully, we’ll never have to worry about saving the world this way.

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November 2, 2024 at 3:22 pm

Meteor Detected Hours Before Its Impact With Earth Allows Astronomers To Capture Incredible Videos Of The Event

Source: Catalina Sky Survey

It is a little terrifying how many objects are coming toward Earth at any given time.

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October 17, 2024 at 3:21 pm

Gaia Telescope Confirms The Existence Of Hundreds Of Previously Unknown Binary Asteroids

Source: NASA/DART Mission

Sounds like there are more moons than we know what to do with.

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November 27, 2022 at 2:19 am

We’ve Discovered The Largest “Planet Ending” Asteroid in Nearly 10 Years

We've Discovered The Largest "Planet Ending" Asteroid in Nearly 10 Years

Uh oh.

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June 3, 2022 at 2:30 pm

How Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets Are Different

How Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets Are Different

Find out which one is called a “dirty snowball”

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