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Gaia spots over 350 asteroids with possible moons
Here are the orbits of the more than 150,000 asteroids. Among these, Gaia data identified hundreds…
What’s Phil thinking of NOW? GAIA
What’s Phil thinking? He’s thinking about the wealth of knowledge about our home galaxy, the Milky…
Why technosignatures from solar panels might be unlikely
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an exoplanet home to an alien civilization. Structures on the…
When the DART mission struck an asteroid moon
This incredible video from September 26, 2022, shows the perspective of the DART spacecraft as it…
Meet the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is being built now at a total cost of about…
Dark matter hunters explore the strangest of places
A team of astronomers analyzed observations that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took over a span of…
The flavor of our galaxy … raspberries and rum?
Does this Torani syrup capture the flavor of our galaxy? And what exactly does that taste…
Saturn’s rings are disappearing!
Saturn’s rings are disappearing from view! At least that’s true for telescope users on Earth. Every…
Mars Curiosity rover’s ‘7 minutes of terror’ 12 years ago
12 years ago on August 5: A nail-biter of a Mars landing Tomorrow is the 12-year…