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Interplanetary threat or human-made traveler? That’s the mystery of 2020 SO1, a Near-Earth Asteroid (a population of asteroids with an orbit very close to Earth), discovered in August 2020 by the ...
A new paper by researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics raises the possibility that the elongated dark-red object, which is 10 times as long as it is wide and traveling at ...
Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...
This makes a lot of sense, because astronomers expect interplanetary objects to be full of ice. And ice, upon being heated by the sun, makes for some pretty spectacular cometary tails.
China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...
The Emirates Mars Mission is the nation’s first interplanetary spacecraft, and it’s sending back never-before-seen views of the red planet and its tiny entourage. Mars is a rather petite ...
A NASA mission has observed an interplanetary shock produced by the sun and taken high-resolution measurements of ... "Shocks are physical processes created when a faster object moves through a ...
Astronomer Brian G. Marsden, a comet and asteroid tracker who stood sentinel to protect the Earth from collisions with interplanetary rocks and other remnants of the solar system’s creation ...