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Asteroid ‘Dinky’ has a little companion that surprises astronomers

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 »

Asteroid ‘Dinky’ has a little companion that surprises astronomers

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 say they have traced the origin of a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An unusual asteroid orbiting near Earth is thought to be part of the moon, but exactly how it approached the solar system has remained a mystery. Now researchers say they have made an important connection… Read More »

Scientists say they have traced the origin of a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An unusual asteroid orbiting near Earth is thought to be part of the moon, but exactly how it approached the solar system has remained a mystery. Now researchers say they have made an important connection… Read More »