785-Secret Asteroid Mission
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable nearby rocky M type asteroid is being planned in secret...
23 Feb 20242min
272E-285-Mars Impactors
In 2015 the Earth was struck by at least 43 meteoroids which created bright fireballs. Their arrival does not seem to be correlated with the position of the Earth in it's orbit about the Sun.Overall a...
20 Feb 20242min
784-Josh's Two PHAs
So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search the sky to discover dangerous asteroids 50 years before...
16 Feb 20242min
271E-284-Dark Trails
A faint shooting star or meteor streaking across the sky is produced when a tiny bit of rock or dust enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up some 60 miles above us. NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries a...
13 Feb 20242min
783--Kacper's Centaur
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.
9 Feb 20242min
270E-283-Micro-Astronomy
The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Even the smallest speck has a story to tell.
6 Feb 20242min
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass with huge empty voids between them. How objects and str...
2 Feb 20242min
269E-281-Starlight Walking
We don't know much about our Ethiopian ancestor Lucy who walked the Earth some 3 million years ago, however, it is likely that she made her way around at night but the light of the stars, air glow, an...
30 Jan 20242min
