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176E-188-Deep Listen
There is a mind blowing potential for life in the Universe. Humanity's ignorance of any life forms beyond Earth has prompted the Breakthrough Prize …
4 years ago
687-Returnee(465)
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.
4 years ago
175E-187-Ganymede's Layers
You can spot Ganymede orbiting the planet Jupiter with any backyard telescope. It is the largest of the four bright moons of Jupiter discovered by Ga…
4 years, 1 month ago
686-Big Atira(464)
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the Su…
4 years, 1 month ago
174E-186-Breaks Happen
Hunting asteroids by poking around in clear holes between cloud layers can be very tiresome, however, sometimes it has its rewards. A break in the m…
4 years, 1 month ago
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enough…
4 years, 1 month ago
173E-185-So Many Possibilities
The number of possible places in a galaxy for life as we know it to develop depends on the number of stars which have planets, the presence of necess…
4 years, 1 month ago
684-Our View(462)
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving and …
4 years, 1 month ago
172E-183-No Worries
A number of blogs and postings on the web have been spreading the false rumor that there is an asteroid which is about to strike the Earth producing …
4 years, 1 month ago
683-TESS(460)
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the e…
4 years, 1 month ago