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Since Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a named which evokes cruise ships, astrophysicist Rhys Taylor has created this wonderful video comparing the two QE2s. He also has more information on his great blog, Physicists of the Caribbe...

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Is time real or is it just an illusion of the human experience? An intriguing new book "Time Reborn" by theoretical physicist Lee Smolin discusses this concept. You can read our full review of this here, but we also have...

The moon's gravity has been a headache ever since the Apollo era. Areas of "mass concentration" or mascons, discovered in 1968, affected spacecraft orbits and made landing on Earth's neighbor a tricky challenge. The phen...

"That's one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind." And with those famous words astronaut Neil A. Armstrong awed the entire world on July 21, 1969, becoming the first human to set a booted foot upon a world ot...

Landsat 8 officially opened its eyes to Earth yesterday (May 30). Officials are promising the clearest views yet of the four-decade-old Landsat program, and luckily for people who love amazing Earth views, the images Lan...

In perhaps the neatest astronomical application of geneology yet, astronomers found 28 "hidden" families of asteroids that could eventually show them how some rocks get into orbits that skirt the Earth's path in space. (...

Will the flyby of Near Earth Asteroid 285263 (1998 QE2) reveal more surprises? NASA announced yesterday that radar images uncovered a previously unknown small moon orbiting the big asteroid. Now, observatories and amateu...

Never seen the International Space Station before? Now is a good time to try, as we enter into a very special time of year. Starting at 12:30 Universal Time/8:30 AM EDT on Monday, June 3rd, the ISS will enter a phase of ...

Deep in the heart of the Milky Way resides a black hole. However, that is not the mysterious object which scientists Fabio Antonini, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and David Merritt, of the Roche...