NASA Just Captured Stunning Images of a Comet’s Fiery Tail
G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...
Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
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How Many Planets Are in the Solar System?
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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Satellite issues: Earth stations in motion (ESIM)
Earth stations in motion (ESIMs) address the complex challenge of how to provide reliable, continuous and high-bandwidth Internet connectivity to users who are on the move. There are three types of ...