[ad_1] Credit: California Institute of Technology Astronomers have spotted an unusual asteroid with the shortest "year" known to all asteroids. The rocky body, named 2019 LF6, is about one kilometer long and goes around the sun every 151 days or so. In its orbit, the asteroid rocks beyond Venus and sometimes approaches Mercury, which surrounds … Read more
[ad_1] Broad search When the European Space Agency launches its satellite antenna (LISA), a satellite network built to detect the gravitational wave ripples emitted by the fusion of black holes, it could also uncover thousands of new exoplanets. Currently, all 4,000 exoplanets discovered by astronomers are near our solar system – the furthest is only … Read more
[ad_1] July 8 (UPI) – Retired astronaut Terry Virts is scheduled to take off Tuesday morning from Florida's Kennedy Space Center to try to break a world record of flying around the Earth over the North and South poles. Virts and a team of pilots from the British company Action Aviation will fly a jet … Read more
[ad_1] How fast is the universe expanding? Scientists are still not quite sure, but a team of astrophysicists led by Princeton used the neutron star fusion detected in 2017 to get a more accurate value for this figure, called Hubble's constant . Their work appears in the latest issue of the journal Nature Astronomy. "Hubble's … Read more
[ad_1] Launch Pad 39A is now being used by SpaceX for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches. In this view captured on Monday, the strong back carrier structure is viewed in a horizontal position at platform 39A, with a waving American flag of the fixed service structure, a tower originally built for the space … Read more
[ad_1] According to a new study, a West Antarctic glacier, nicknamed "the world's most dangerous", could completely melt and cause a rapid and "catastrophic" rise in sea level. The study, published in the scientific journal PNAS, indicates that the Thwaites Glacier is at a proverbial "tipping point" that could cause an uninterrupted flow of ice … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers have discovered a very rare asteroid from data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) sky survey: an asteroid whose orbit is entirely in the interior Earth's orbit around the Sun, and therefore the asteroid with the shortest "year" found so far. It only takes 151 days to orbit the sun! Rocks like this … Read more
[ad_1] Last week's total solar eclipse produced an incredible number of incredible images as it swept through a handful of countries. But while observers from parts of South America were looking up at the sky, a NASA satellite was observing the phenomenon from space. The US Space Agency's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured one … Read more
[ad_1] The period makes 2019 LF6 the record holder for the shortest year of any object smaller than a planet. The asteroid measures 1 km (0.6 km) in diameter, which makes it relatively big for an asteroid. The orbit is also unusual because it traverses the space in an elliptical loop that sees it closer … Read more
[ad_1] Hands of Timothy Close, professor and geneticist at UC Riverside and Sassoum Lo, PhD student in the Plant Biology Program at UCR, co-author of the paper in Senegal. Close and Sassoum hold cowpea seeds with a range of colors, patterns, sizes and shapes of fur. Credit: TJ Close / UCR UC Riverside scientists have … Read more