Astronomy
Oct 30, 2018
Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds
NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary.
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Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2018
The coincidence between two overachieving NASA missions
Two vastly different NASA spacecraft are about to run out of fuel: The Kepler spacecraft, which spent nine years in deep space collecting data that detected thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system; and ...
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2018
Four extremely young asteroid families identified
Four families of extremely young asteroids have been identified by researchers affiliated with São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Guaratinguetá, Brazil. An article on the discovery has been published in Monthly Notices ...
Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2018
VLBA measures asteroid's characteristics
In an unusual observation, astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to study the effects on radio waves coming from a distant radio galaxy when an asteroid in our Solar System passed ...
Astronomy
Sep 10, 2018
Scientists find evidence for early planetary shake-up
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence points to an early planetary rearrangement in our solar system.
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2018
Legacy of NASA's dawn, near the end of its mission
NASA's Dawn mission is drawing to a close after 11 years of breaking new ground in planetary science, gathering breathtaking imagery, and performing unprecedented feats of spacecraft engineering.
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2018
The legacy of NASA's Dawn, near end of mission
NASA's Dawn mission is drawing to a close after 11 years of breaking new ground in planetary science, gathering breathtaking imagery, and performing unprecedented feats of spacecraft engineering.
Astronomy
Aug 22, 2018
Another way to search for biosignatures of alien life—the material blasted out of asteroid impacts
In recent years, the number of confirmed extra-solar planets has risen exponentially. As of the penning of the article, a total of 3,777 exoplanets have been confirmed in 2,817 star systems, with an additional 2,737 candidates ...
Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2018
Earth mini-moons: Potential for exciting scientific and commercial opportunities
The detection of "mini-moons"—small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth—will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-Moon system, says a new review published in Frontiers ...
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2018
Researchers uncover remnants of early solar system (Update)
Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star or supernova. As this ...
