14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
...data analytics and AI tools to astronomical research,” said SETI Institute President and CEO Bill Diamond. “Applying these techniques in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial technologies, or technosignatures, is incredibly compelling, together...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
... Asteroid” – have been stowed away on the bottom of Hayabusa2 during its long journey to this carbon-rich, diamond-shaped asteroid that is a kilometre in diameter. The asteroids new inhabitants weigh just over 1 kilogram, stand seven...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
Whizzing around approximately 122,187,449 kilometres from Earth is a carbon-rich, 500-metre diamond-shaped asteroid, which could help scientists unravel how the Solar System formed and soon another of ...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
... craft was around nine kilometres from Ryugu and it busily started sending back a flurry of pictures as the diamond-shaped, primitive carbon space rock came into closer view. Hayabusa2 will home in on a pre-selected patch...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
... Hayabusa 2 travelled over 220 million kilometres, plus the return mileage, to visit this one kilometre-wide, diamond shaped space rock. During its time at its target, Hayabusa 2 also made a number of global thermal infrared...
12 May 2021
Scientists discover liquid water inside a meteorite
..., have just found in fragments from a meteorite that fell to Earth in 2012 and was made famous after diamonds were found embedded in the rock. Known as Sutter’s Mill after the California Gold Rush site near...
