Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
Yahoo1 个月
Saturn gets its 1st confirmed Trojan asteroid — but it might be stolen
A diagram showing the asteroid belt. Jupiter's orbit is also shown, with green dots representing where the Jupiter Trojans are. Jupiter's first discovered Trojan, 588 Achilles, was identified in ...
Forbes1 年
Webb Telescope Finds An Asteroid Belt And Evidence Of Planets Around Close ‘Royal Star ...
Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...
Forbes3 个月
There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’
massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...
Newsweek1 个月
Bus-Sized Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon Next Week
ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt. However, as they are relatively small ...
来自MSN10 天
Earth's mini moon could be a chunk of the big moon, scientists say
The company is developing a project in Spain dedicated to monitoring cislunar space ... The Arjuna asteroids are much closer ...
What If on MSN4 天
What If Earth Was Sandwiched Between Two Asteroid Belts?
It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and ...