NASA's Lucy phones home after asteroid flyby
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is powering on toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids after making a successful flyby of another asteroid called Dinkinesh.
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is powering on toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids after making a successful flyby of another asteroid called Dinkinesh.
Mining an asteroid probably won't look exactly like mining does on Earth, but some principles will stay the same. posteriori/iStock via Getty ImagesThe cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these metals is only rising, and companies are constantly searching for new places on Earth to mine them. Scientists estimate that lots of these metals exist thousands
To help you get in the mood for Halloween, NASA has released a spooky image from deep space showing what it describes as a ghostly cosmic hand.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected heavy elements being created in a star merger for the first time.
A recent image taken by the Gemini South observatory shows the chaotic result of a merger between two spiral galaxies one billion years ago.