Enlarge (credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI; sketch courtesy of James Tuttle Keane) While people around the world were celebrating the arrival of 2019, people at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland were hard at work. Billions of miles away, the New Horizons probe was flying past Ultima Thule, a small object in the Kuiper Belt. By […]
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‘Missing’ Asteroid 2012 TC4 spotted ahead of Earth flyby in October
Published time: 10 Aug, 2017 20:05 An asteroid set to whizz past Earth in October will miss our planet by 44,000 kilometers, according to new observations which spotted the wandering space rock for the first time in five years. Asteroid 2012 TC4 was discovered in 2012 by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii. During the original […]
Space mystery solved? 'Wow' signal linked to rare comet flyby, says study
Published time: 7 Jun, 2017 19:07 Edited time: 7 Jun, 2017 19:09 The source of the mysterious ‘Wow!’ space signal which has baffled astronomers for decades might finally have been found. The signal was picked up by astronomer Jerry Ehman in 1977 after he had been analyzing radio frequencies from space as part of Ohio […]
Nasa probe Juno completes latest flyby of gas giant Jupiter (PHOTOS)
Published time: 20 May, 2017 19:24 Nasa’s Juno spacecraft collected more crucial data during its latest flyby of Jupiter, the probe’s fifth science orbit since beginning its monumental mission. Juno’s many onboard instruments collected various forms of data during the close flyby. These readings will be returned to Earth for analysis along with images captured […]
‘No incidents over Black Sea’: Russian MoD denies ‘unprofessional & unsafe’ flyby of USS Porter
The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied any unusual incidents or encounters with a US destroyer after the Pentagon accused Moscow of “unsafe and unprofessional” piloting in the vicinity of the USS Porter “patrolling” the Black Sea. On Tuesday, Captain Danny Hernandez, a spokesman for the US European Command, said that on three separate occasions, […]