A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. And NASA plans to fly a drone-like aircraft called Dragonfly around the surface of Titan.
The StarLink Project will wreak havoc on star gazing, astrophotography, asteroid hunting, the search for extraterrestrials, and astronomical research of all kinds.
In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1,839 previously unknown space rocks and statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diameter.
Alex Gibbs found 3,400 foot diameter 2018 XV5 and 1,200 foot diameter 2018 GG5
More than 50 years of searching for signals from other civilizations in the Universe has produced a deafening silence.
Carson Fuls and Jess Johnson discovered 2015 DH155, a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and Dr. Alice Quillen wonder if there are objects which dim in ways that will tell us about their natures.
Alex Gibbs found his 27th comet. This discovery brings him into a tie for third place, in the list of observers. And Carson Fuls and Jess Johnson discovered 10’ diameter 2015 DD1.
RADAR images of 2004 BL86 shows a small moon. And Carl Sagan said that “The Universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
Observation of 2015 BY310 with an asteroid 2000 BK19 and the story of Peter Birtwhistle one of unsung heroes of the asteroid hunting community.
Discovery of three asteroids whose orbits are similar enough to conclude that they are part of an asteroid collision fragment family. And the story of Comet C2013 US10/Catalina.