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Asteroids are rocky objects that move around a solar system. They are often too small to be considered planets, and are more often considered minor planets. Asteroids orbit the sun, but not in the characteristic "disc" orbit that regular planets do.
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SEP 26, 2023Space & Astronomy
This past Sunday, September 24, 2023, marked the end of a journey that spanned just over seven years and billions of mil ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 15, 2023Space & Astronomy
NASA recently helped add Germany as the 29th signatory nation for the Artemis Accords with a signing ceremony at the Ger ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 06, 2023Space & Astronomy
NASA announced today that the Psyche spacecraft is still scheduled to begin its launch window on October 5th and spans t ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 06, 2023Space & Astronomy
NASA recently conducted a rehearsal capsule recovery test of its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identificati ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 24, 2023Space & Astronomy
Today is officially designated as Pluto Demoted Day, which commemorates when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 24, 2023Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged debris from asteroid Dimorphos that was blasted away as a result of ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 24, 2023Space & Astronomy
As humanity prepares to send humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years with the upcoming Artemis missi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 11, 2023Space & Astronomy
The Moon is getting another instrument to explore its vast history as the Magnetic Anomaly Plasma Spectrometer (MAPS) in ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 14, 2023Space & Astronomy
While asteroids are the lesser-known populace of the solar system, they have possibly the greatest significance as these ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 31, 2023Space & Astronomy
On May 11, NASA announced that researchers at Georgia Tech have been awarded $7.5 million to run a new center called the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 27, 2023Space & Astronomy
How do supernovas occur? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers exami ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 15, 2023Space & Astronomy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently used its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to observe a disk of dusty debris enc ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 04, 2023Space & Astronomy
While the planets and moons of our solar system garner frequent attention from the scientific community, asteroids and c ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAPR 05, 2023Space & Astronomy
Icy satellites have become a hot topic for astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth due to their interior ocean ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 16, 2023Space & Astronomy
An astrophysicist from UC Riverside (UCR) recently examined "two notable gaps in planetary science", as noted by Dr. Ste ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 15, 2023Space & Astronomy
An international team of researchers led by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) used the Atacama Large Milli ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 11, 2023Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists has analyzed a sample of the asteroid Ryugu and found that the sample is rich with o ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.FEB 18, 2023Space & Astronomy
This past week, a small asteroid – colloquially known as a ‘shooting star’ – was discovered in s ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.FEB 02, 2023Space & Astronomy
Labroots recently explored the reflective and beautiful atmosphere of Venus that envelopes its hot and high-pressured su ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 27, 2023Space & Astronomy
Some scientists dedicate their lives to hunting for meteorites, and may have to brave some harsh conditions to do so. An ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.JAN 12, 2023Space & Astronomy
The eight planets and 200-plus moons that populate our solar system aren't the only locations that exhibit awe-inspiring ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 26, 2022Space & Astronomy
While there are over 200 moons in our solar system, only three exist around the inner terrestrial planets, and two belon ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 15, 2022Space & Astronomy
How dark is space? That’s a question that some astronomers are trying to answer. To do so, they sorted through 200 ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.NOV 24, 2022Space & Astronomy
In a recent study published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers led by the Paris Globe Institute o ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 26, 2023
Space & Astronomy
This past Sunday, September 24, 2023, marked the end of a journey that spanned just over seven years and billions of mil
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 15, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA recently helped add Germany as the 29th signatory nation for the Artemis Accords with a signing ceremony at the Ger
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 06, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA announced today that the Psyche spacecraft is still scheduled to begin its launch window on October 5th and spans t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 06, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA recently conducted a rehearsal capsule recovery test of its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identificati
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 24, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Today is officially designated as Pluto Demoted Day, which commemorates when the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 24, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged debris from asteroid Dimorphos that was blasted away as a result of
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 24, 2023
Space & Astronomy
As humanity prepares to send humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years with the upcoming Artemis missi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 11, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The Moon is getting another instrument to explore its vast history as the Magnetic Anomaly Plasma Spectrometer (MAPS) in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 14, 2023
Space & Astronomy
While asteroids are the lesser-known populace of the solar system, they have possibly the greatest significance as these
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 31, 2023
Space & Astronomy
On May 11, NASA announced that researchers at Georgia Tech have been awarded $7.5 million to run a new center called the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 27, 2023
Space & Astronomy
How do supernovas occur? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers exami
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 15, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently used its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to observe a disk of dusty debris enc
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 04, 2023
Space & Astronomy
While the planets and moons of our solar system garner frequent attention from the scientific community, asteroids and c
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 05, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Icy satellites have become a hot topic for astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth due to their interior ocean
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 16, 2023
Space & Astronomy
An astrophysicist from UC Riverside (UCR) recently examined "two notable gaps in planetary science", as noted by Dr. Ste
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 15, 2023
Space & Astronomy
An international team of researchers led by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) used the Atacama Large Milli
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 11, 2023
Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists has analyzed a sample of the asteroid Ryugu and found that the sample is rich with o
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 18, 2023
Space & Astronomy
This past week, a small asteroid – colloquially known as a ‘shooting star’ – was discovered in s
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 02, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Labroots recently explored the reflective and beautiful atmosphere of Venus that envelopes its hot and high-pressured su
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 27, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Some scientists dedicate their lives to hunting for meteorites, and may have to brave some harsh conditions to do so. An
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JAN 12, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The eight planets and 200-plus moons that populate our solar system aren't the only locations that exhibit awe-inspiring
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 26, 2022
Space & Astronomy
While there are over 200 moons in our solar system, only three exist around the inner terrestrial planets, and two belon
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 15, 2022
Space & Astronomy
How dark is space? That’s a question that some astronomers are trying to answer. To do so, they sorted through 200
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
NOV 24, 2022
Space & Astronomy
In a recent study published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers led by the Paris Globe Institute o
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc