LISA: What the Revolutionary Gravitational Wave Observatory Will Actually See
LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...
NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...
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NASA’s NEO Surveyor Takes First Steps Toward Saving Earth From Asteroids
NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is currently undergoing critical testing at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. A key component of the spacecraft, known as the instrument enclosure, is a ...
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Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely ... Centers' archive who hoped he had discovered a near-Earth object, Astronomy reported. The Minor Planet ...
AOL15d
Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
The would-be asteroid was first spotted by an amateur astronomer parsing the Minor Planet Centers' archive who hoped he had discovered a near-Earth object, Astronomy reported. The Minor Planet ...
Undark16d
It’s Not Sci-Fi: Americans Support Asteroid Defense Spending
And before the decade’s end, an asteroid-hunting space-based telescope, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, will be launched; with its infrared eye, it is set to find almost all the city ...
ExtremeTech16d
NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
To find out, scientists at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) tracked the motion of 2024 PT5 over several months. Artificial objects, like spent rocket boosters, are buffeted by ...
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NASA alerts about a huge 84-foot, airplane-sized asteroid coming very close to Earth today
Despite being classified as a near-Earth object, experts confirm it poses no danger. Asteroids like 2017 BN92 are remnants from the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. These objects ...
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Rare Earth Elements and National Security
Eugene Gholz analyzes the economic and security consequences of China's central position in the global rare-earths market. He discusses the evolution of the rare-earths market, which is critical ...
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Plane-Sized Asteroid Races Toward Earth At 22,000 Km Per Hour; How Close Will It Get?
According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), asteroid 2017 BN92 is part of a class known as near-Earth objects, which are celestial bodies whose orbits bring them close to Earth's path around ...
Space.com20d
Scientists call on UN to help solve Earth's space junk problem
"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite ... collide with other orbiting objects, thus creating masses of debris ...