Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
Astronomers Uncover Hidden Birthplaces of Meteorites and Asteroids
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a ...
Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists - 'it's human conceit to think we're alone'
Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human ...
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Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
We crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid’s moon in 2022. Earth has had a few mini-moons, some only a couple of metres in size. The line of what is and isn’t a moon is a bit hazy. Moons orbiting ...
Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
A Tiny Moon Photo Bombs Mars as Europe’s Hera Mission Swoops Past
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...
Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes something a moon remains unclear
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
Mysterious Mars moon captured in unprecedented images by space probe
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.