Asteroids and Space Junk: A Week of Close Calls in Space

The chances of having two close shaves between humans and items from space in a matter of days must be astronomical, and yet that’s exactly what has happened in recent days. First, it was discovered that Earth was buzzed by an asteroid on June 27.   The space rock, named asteroid 2011 MD, managed to come [...]

Spaceship shaped object captured by Hubble

I’ve always embraced my own inner geek… but every once in a while I get a self inflicted reminder as to the precise level of nerd-girl-ishness that I’ve acquired.  Case in point. I’d heard on the radio about an object that was recently photographed by the Hubble Telescope.  Apparently, it resembled some kind of spacecraft.  [...]