STARGAZERS may soon have a chance to spot the “Great Comet of 2026” – potentially the brightest of the year. Comets are a ...
The world’s largest digital camera has just delivered on its promise, catching a massive, fast spinning asteroid in the act ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The stargazing calendar for 2026 gets off to a bit of a contrary ...
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres, scientists expected to find a cold, inactive relic of the early solar system. Instead, they were confronted with bright white patches, strange mountains, ...
If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That's easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...
Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...
Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
No, Earth will not have "two moons until 2083," but asteroid 2025 PN7 has joined Earth's orbital path, with the tiny fleet of space rocks set to trail Earth's orbit until 2083 before the sun pulls it ...
The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...
Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...