Is Asteroid Psyche the Core of an Unformed Planet?

08/21/20 • 33 min

SpaceTime: Your Guide to Space & Astronomy

*Asteroid Psyche could be the core of an unformed planet
A new study of the Main Belt asteroid Psyche suggests it could be the remnant of a planet that never formed.
*New discovery about the Higgs Boson
Physicists at CERN the European Centre for nuclear research have witnessed the Higgs Boson decaying into a pair of muons.
*Satellite Navigation systems
Satellite navigation systems have become essential to our way of life – especially travel – but how do they work?
*South Korea’s first military communications satellite launched
SpaceX has successfully launched South Korea’s first military communications satellite into geostationary orbit.
*The Science Report
COVID-19 infections are linked to heart damage.
Kids under five may be important drivers of the COVID-19 virus.
How sleep helps improve your memory.
A new species of sauropod dinosaur discovered in China.
Beijing makes it illegal to question Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Dangerous Alien Life Warning

*New study warns that alien life would be dangerous to Earthlings
Discovery that alien peptides containing two amino acids commonly found in carbonaceous meteorites would pose a serious threat to human health.
*NASA looking at a new mission to Venus
The proposed mission named VERITAS would transform sciences understanding of the internal geodynamics that shaped Earth’s sister planet Venus.
*The Kremlin tests its new anti-satellite weapon
Moscow has conducted a space-based anti-satellite weapons test-firing a projectile from its Cosmos 2543 satellite.
*China growing eyes in the sky
China has launched another high-resolution surveillance satellite part of a growing constellation of almost a hundred eyes in the sky keeping a close watch on Beijing’s friends and enemies.
*The Science Report
COVID-19 lockdowns cause the longest and most prominent reduction in man-made noise on record.
Your chances of getting COVID-19 in a commuter situation such as on a train, bus, or plane.
New Zealand's melting glaciers are ten times more like to be caused by global warming.
Paleontologists have discovered a new species theropod dinosaur in Portugal.
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*Best place on Earth to see stars
A new study has determined that a frozen plateau in Antarctica called Dome A is the best place on Earth to see the stars.
*Dozens of brown dwarfs discovered in our neighbourhood
A new study has uncovered 95 previously unknown brown dwarfs lurking in our cosmic neighbourhood.
*The tenth pack of Starlink satellites now in orbit
SpaceX has launched its tenth Starlink mission adding another 57 broadband internet satellites to the growing constellation.
*The Science Report
Climate change pushing Greenland's ice sheet beyond an irreversible tipping point.
Common high blood pressure drug Hydrochlorothiazide linked to increased risk of skin cancer.
Scientists turn house bricks into batteries.
Archaeologists discover 2700-Year-Old Administrative Centre remains in Jerusalem.
Can dogs sense the supernatural?
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