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- From Around the Web, Space
 - December 12, 2018
 
VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, near the apogee of its third powered flight July 26. Credit: Virgin Galactic

VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, near the apogee of its third powered flight July 26. Credit: Virgin Galactic

Ceres offers insight into the synthesis, transport of organic matter in the inner solar system

The craft will spend 2019 scoping out the best spot to grab a handful of space rock dust

It’s the second probe ever to exit the heliosphere

Last week we talked about the Chinese Chang’e-4 lunar probe that China was set to launch to study the far side of the moon. The probe launched in the early hours of Saturday morning and that lunch went off without a hitch. China sent the probe towards the moon atop a Long March-3B rocket.

Scientists celebrate recording low-frequency rumblings – ‘an unplanned treat’

European Space Agency cancels 2026 collision risk – leaving just 794 possibilities. Andrew Masterson reports.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission won’t just take pretty pictures of the asteroid Bennu—it will also help scientists learn whether the rock will one day threaten Earth.

After a long journey, it’s time to get to work.

In films like Armageddon, Hollywood has tried (and failed) to take on the question of what would happen if a comet or asteroid plunged into the oceans on Earth, but what has scientific research actually determined it may look like?



