Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers got a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid called Dinkinesh in November and detected a contact binary (two small space rocks touching each other) orbiting the asteroid like a moon. This… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers got a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid called Dinkinesh in November and detected a contact binary (two small space rocks touching each other) orbiting the asteroid like a moon. This… Read More »
Scientists may have learned the history of the little ones contact binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 DinkineshNASA’s first cosmic stop Lucy spacecraft. This moonlet may have formed from its larger parent asteroid When Dinkinesh was sent spinning through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. The Lucy mission, launched in 2021, is on track to explore… Read More »