asteroid belt
Earth’s weird ‘quasi-moon’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Earth’s “quasi-moon” was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system’s history, a new study suggests. Kamo’oalewa, ...
NASA Data Detects Water on Asteroids for the First Time Ever
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Water has been found on the surface of two asteroids for the first time, scientists said in a new paper. Two silicate-rich ...
How Earth’s new Rubin Observatory will usher in the next era of asteroid space missions
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Dr. Sarah Adams
The forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will never leave Earth itself, but the highly detailed, “big picture” view of the cosmos it ...
One Of The Brightest Stars To Disappear In “Once In A Lifetime” Event
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Dr. Sarah Adams
Betelgeuse will nearly disappear for a duration of 7 to 12 seconds. Astronomers predict there will be a historic “once-in-a-lifetime” event that ...
Surprise! Asteroid ‘Dinky’ is actually a double space rock, NASA’s Lucy probe reveals (photo)
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Dr. Sarah Adams
The first-ever asteroid encounter of NASA’s Lucy mission came with a twist, it turns out. On Wednesday (Nov. 1), Lucy zoomed past ...
