Earth has 7 strange quasi-moons — and you could name one of them
Earth has 7 quasi-moons, which are asteroids that orbit the Earth but are also influenced by the gravity of other planets. They are not true moons. One of Earth’s quasi-moons is 2004 GU9. It has an unstable orbit and will leave Earth’s orbit after 2600. The podcast Radiolab is hosting a contest to name 2004 […]
Chinese astronauts install space-junk shielding on Tiangong space station
Two Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou 18 mission performed a spacewalk on July 3rd to continue installing debris shields outside the Tiangong space station. The astronauts, Ye Guangfu and Li Cong, spent around 6.5 hours working outside Tiangong. Their main task was mounting space debris shielding to protect equipment and cables on the station. Fellow […]