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Tackling the Earth's orbiting space junk
2020-01-03 01:11:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How the Japanese firm Astroscale is set to start cleaning up the Earth's orbiting space debris.
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Astronomers Find Alien Asteroid Orbiting the Wrong Way Near Jupiter
2018-05-21 22:10:20| Extremetech
An asteroid called 2015 BZ509 is currently in orbit close to Jupiter, but it's orbiting the wrong way. The post Astronomers Find Alien Asteroid Orbiting ‘the Wrong Way’ Near Jupiter appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Kepler Spots Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Orbiting Nearby Star
2018-03-14 16:30:05| Extremetech
It orbits a red dwarf star about 200 light years away, which is called K2-155. Red dwarfs are very long-lived stars, so life would have plenty of time to develop. The post Kepler Spots Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Orbiting Nearby Star appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Theres an Earthlike planet orbiting our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri but how might we actually get there?
2016-08-29 20:33:54| Extremetech
Ideas for interstellar travel abound, but the gap between theory and practice stretches from here to Proxima Centauri. Even if Proxima b is habitable, we're a long way from any potential mission.
This Week In Space: Lost spacecraft found, Curiosity 360 camera, and a new neighbor orbiting Proxima Centauri
2016-08-26 18:30:13| Extremetech
Pan around a 360-degree panorama of Mars, see hydrocarbon lakes on Titan, and smugly congratulate your tax dollars for finding a lost satellite: it's all here, This Week in Space.