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With Neowise in Our Sights, Earthlings Go Comet-Spotting

Prakash Chandra 01/08/2020

Comets are extremely delicate thanks to their weak tensile...

Gault 6478, Asteroid Gault, PanSTARRS. Hubble space telescope, William Herschel Telescope, La Palma, Tenerife, ESO, Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, NASA ATLAS, asteroids, near-Earth objects,

Meet Gault the Oddball Asteroid

Prakash Chandra 01/04/2019

In October 2018, sky-watchers saw a dramatic change in...

Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, point circle method, spaceflight, astronomy, data torture, Keplerian orbital elements, orbits of the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets, top news, headlines, astronomical units,

Did You Know? On Average, Mercury Is Earth’s Closest Neighbour.

Pratik Pawar 28/03/2019

Trying to improve stargazing and space-journeying are lofty goals...

impact crater, asteroids, meteors, meteorites, lunar craters, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA LRO, dinosaurs, extinction event, mass extinction, Mount Everest, Permian Triassic extinction event, Solar System, Moon, 'Oumuamua, kimberlite pipes, Yarkovsky effect, inner asteroid belt,

Long Ago, the Number of Meteors Hitting Earth Spiked Suddenly – and Didn’t Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/01/2019

Something happened in the Solar System about 300 million...

NASA Deep Space Probe Reaches Asteroid Deemed Potential Earth Threat

Reuters 04/12/2018

A 'touch-and-go' manoeuvre of OSIRIS-REx is planned to snatch...

dust, air pollution, Kordylewski clouds, natural satellites, Earth moons, space debris, house dust mites, asthma, PM10, PM2.5, Sahara desert, Bodele depression, meteor, meteorites, asteroids, comets, supernova, neutron star merger, black holes, Andromeda galaxy, Lagrange points, ISRO Aditya L1, Hiten satellite, cosmic dust, Brian Keating, cosmic microwave background, Big Bang, accretion disk, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, panspermia, Jupiter, Saturn moons, Pan moon, origin of life, Arthur C. Clarke, moondust, regolith, Indian Space Research Organisation - ISRO,

The Story of Dust, Through Space and Time

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/11/2018

Unlike our search thus far for extraterrestrial companionship, we...

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Start Mining Asteroids for Faster Data and a Cleaner Planet

Philip Metzger 09/01/2018

An asteroid-mining infrastructure could help to solve a major...