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Space.com

A diamond is forever? Tell that to a rubble-pile asteroid. The asteroid Itokawa is a pile of rocky debris 1,640 feet (500 meters) long. Some call it peanut-shaped; Others say it resembles a sea otter, complete with a head, neck and body.

Space.com

A new dark matter model suggests a new candidate for the constituent particles of this mysterious form of matter that could mean it is detectable by future experiments. Despite making up 85% of the matter …

Space.com

NASA’s Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission has been given an additional space rock to visit, bringing the journey’s total to 10 asteroids. The Lucy mission team officially added main-belt asteroid 1999 VD57 to Lucy’s list of targets on Jan. 24.

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Boeing’s Starliner crew module looks like it would fit right in wandering the deserts of Tatooine alongside C-3PO. Starliner resembles the lovable droid R2-D2 from the “Star Wars” franchise in newly released NASA photos, which were taken while the …

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The Chang’e 7 mission is part of a recently approved new phase of Chinese lunar exploration that will target the moon’s south pole and far side. Chang’e 7 will consist of an orbiter, lander, rover and a small, flying detector that can move into shadowed …

Scientific American

Heliophysicists and other scientists studying “space weather” warn that flares and related solar outbursts can indeed interfere with modern life by damaging power grids, as well as by increasing radiation exposures for occupants of space habitats and high- …

Scientific American

It’s not obvious what form a universal lunar time would take. Clocks on Earth and the Moon naturally tick at different speeds, because of the differing gravitational fields of the two bodies. Official lunar time could be based on a clock system designed to …

Smithsonian

The space agency has said that it will send the first woman and the first person of color to the lunar surface. Brendan Byrne. Freelance writer. January 26, 2023 11:00 a.m.. NASA Astronaut and Artemis Launch NASA has 42 current astronauts to select …

Phys.Org

An international team of scientists have demonstrated a leap in preserving the quantum coherence of quantum dot spin qubits as part of the global push for practical quantum networks and quantum computers. These technologies will be transformative to a …