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Japan's Hayabusa2 photographs peanut-shaped asteroid Torifune on July 5 flyby

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has captured a close-up image of asteroid Torifune, a rare two-lobed space rock, during its ...
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Earth's second moon is revealed for the first time: Satellite beams back image of rare 'micromoon'

This is the first image of a rare 'minimoon' that loops around the Earth like a dance partner.

China's Spacecraft Snaps First-Ever Close-Up Image Of Earth's Rare 'Minimoon'

Despite being called a "minimoon", Kamo'oalewa is not Earth's second moon. It is a rare type of asteroid known as a ...
Scientific American

NASA’s exoplanet mission accidentally discovers a world it was never meant to find

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Financing the Space Economy at America’s 250th: American DeepTech Applauds “Moonfra” Financing; the Birth of US Sovereign Grade Space Leverage

Firm highlights White House, SBA, NASA and Bipartisan Congress for their support for Lunar Infrastructure and US Space Economy Leadership WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESS Newswire / July 2, 2026 / As the ...
ZME Science

Scientists Turned Earth’s Radio Waves into Music. Listen to the Eerie Sounds Made by Lightning and Solar Storms

It catches very low frequency radio waves made by lightning, solar storms and charged particles moving through Earth’s ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is older than the sun

During last year’s brief visit from the comet 3I/ATLAS, astronomers got an extremely rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our ...

Would you spend a year pretending to live on Mars? NASA wants volunteers

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...
IFLScience

"Like The Top Of A Martian Honeycomb": NASA's Curiosity Rover Discovers Odd, Polygonal Structures On Mars

Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

You can spend a year in a simulated space habitat for NASA. Here's how

Think you have what it takes to live in a Mars and moon simulation for a year? NASA may want to select you as a volunteer.
IFLScience

Today, Earth Reaches Aphelion, Our Most Distant Point From The Sun. So Why Is It So Stupidly Hot?

Earth receives about 7 percent less light during aphelion than during its closest approach to our star, yet the average ...