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Car-size asteroid will zip between Earth and the moon tonight (Image Credit: Space.com) A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week for asteroid watchers all over the world. The roughly 15-foot-wide (4.6 meters) asteroid, designated 2024 XS2, will […]
Mars rover Perseverance sends home postcard from scenic ‘Pico Turquino’ (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) After an arduous ascent to the rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover is doing a little sightseeing. The most recent stop on its Red Planet road trip? A roughly 656-foot-long (200 meters) outcrop named Pico Turquino. […]
Comets probably delivered Earth its water billions of years ago, new study reveals (Image Credit: Space.com) Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it’s hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet’s surface is covered in the stuff. Thus, understanding where Earth’s water came from […]
Over 10,000 exploding stars catalogued by groundbreaking Zwicky Transient Facility (Image Credit: Space.com) The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone: It has classified over 10,000 cosmic explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the feeding frenzies of vampire stellar remnants. These events, called supernovas, are undoubtedly some of […]
Watch SpaceX’s 31st Dragon cargo capsule head back to Earth Dec. 12 after delay (Image Credit: Space.com) A SpaceX cargo capsule is set to head back toward Earth on Dec. 12, and you can watch the action live. A robotic Dragon freighter will undock from the International Space Station‘s (ISS) Harmony module […]
Dwarf planet Ceres could be rich in organics, defunct spacecraft data reveals (Image Credit: Space.com) Using data from NASA’s now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve rich in organic materials — the building […]
Drones look to the stars to make themselves stealthier (Image Credit: Space.com) A new celestial navigation system designed for drones could make them harder to detect by eliminating the need for GPS signal emissions. Scientists from the University of South Australia have developed a new navigation system that allows uncrewed aerial vehicles […]
Sweeping gravitational wave map of the universe could reveal hidden black holes (Image Credit: Space.com) The most detailed map of the universe ever created using gravitational waves could reveal hidden black holes, merging supermassive black holes and even the large-scale structure of the cosmos. The study, conducted by a team led by […]
Meet ‘Blackbird’: A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system (Image Credit: Space.com) A new type of flying car could soon be ferrying passengers through the skies using a novel propulsion technology, engineers say. On Nov. 5, CycloTech, an Austrian company that builds flying car […]
Iran launches military satellite, sending nation’s largest-ever payload to orbit: reports (Image Credit: Space.com) Iran’s space program continues to make progress as the nation announces the successful launch of its largest payload yet. Iranian state media says one of the nation’s two-stage Simorgh rockets launched on Friday (Dec. 6) with payloads weighing […]
