NASA announced its spacecraft will orbit asteroid 16 Psyche for 26 months, collecting data to uncover its history and other valuable insights Located between Mars and Jupiter, 16 Psyche possesses an ...
Discovered in 1852, the asteroid 16 Psyche, composed largely of nickel and iron, is estimated to be worth $10,000 quadrillion. NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft in 2023 to study the asteroid ...
Vesta, the largest known asteroid, also considered a protoplanet, is 330 miles across, according to NASA. That is roughly the same width as the entire state of Arizona. Within the last few years ...
The asteroid, named 2006 WB, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to likely be about 310 feet across, though according to JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the ...
The radar instrument onboard NASA's Gulfstream III aircraft spotted an abandoned "city under the ice": a relic of the Cold War that was once used as a military base by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Years later, NASA detected the project's buried base, called Camp Century, deep beneath the accumulating ice. A space agency research plane swooped over the remote Arctic region this year ...
NASA scientists have found the remains of a U.S. military base buried 100 feet below the surface of the ice in Greenland. Camp Century, as it was called, was a Cold War-era satellite for the U.S ...
Tryfonov – stock.adobe.com Asteroid 2006 WM is considered a stadium-sized object, but even that is an estimate. According to NASA’s NEO database, it could be larger, over 500 feet, or smaller.
The discovery was made in April, when a NASA Gulfstream III aircraft flew over the area, revealing the remnants of Camp Century, a long-abandoned Cold War-era military base, as per a release by ...