Mountain-size asteroid will appear as a slow-moving star next month0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2020
Asteroid 1998 OR2 is the biggest space rock expected to fly past Earth this year, and even amateurs can catch it in the sky.
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Astronauts growing new organs on International Space Station0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 11, 2020
Process that leads three-dimensional cultures to form in low-gravity is still not understood
New type of pulsating star discovered0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 11, 2020
A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the first of its kind to be found and scientists expect to find many more similar systems as technology to listen inside the beating hearts of stars improves.
Surprise! Students get an unexpected glimpse of a black hole 30,000 light-years away0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 11, 2020
They used a NASA asteroid probe to do it.
This gas-giant exoplanet has water-rich clouds. Here’s why it thrills astronomers.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2020
Three teams of astronomers have been fascinated by an alien world known as K2-18b. But what’s all the fuss about?
Physicists Are Studying Mysterious ‘Bubbles of Nothing’ That Eat Spacetime0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2020
A spontaneous hole in the fabric of reality could theoretically end the universe, but don’t worry: physicists are studying the idea for what it can teach us about the cosmos.
Is life possible around black holes?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2020
There’s a lot of energy there for organisms to tap.
Space-grown lettuce to give astronauts a more varied diet0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 9, 2020
Nasa’s Veggie system will enable astronauts to safely grow nutritious fresh food
What’s in a name: Why NASA chose ‘Perseverance’ for its next Mars rover0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2020
The moniker captures the spirit of space exploration remarkably well, NASA officials said.
A new moon is ‘temporarily bound to the Earth,’ but 2020 CD3 is no match for our old Moon0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2020
The capital-M Moon is special. It was not captured like this new moon. It was born of the Earth itself, in a collision nearly 5 billion years ago
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