If you’re like most people, you’ve never heard of it. Meet the ringed asteroid-comet hybrid prowling the outer reaches of the Solar System.
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The activities of illegal miners are a threat to the sustainability of the crater.
An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.
Keeping Earth safe from asteroids isn’t just spotting them – it’s also helping people understand what a high-impact probability with Earth means.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture enough detail to see a golf ball from 25km away.
Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.
Missions that return asteroid samples bring home more than just very expensive dust. These samples can provide valuable insights for scientists and commercial interests.
The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.
Learning about these interstellar objects could give us insights into other star systems.
Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research using shooting stars may explain why.
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but asteroids can pass by the Earth undetected.
In mid-February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.
The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are small but fluctuating.
At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has around a 1-in-77 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 – but there’s no need to panic.
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling the building blocks of life.
Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.
In 2017, astronomers found an object they’d never seen before. Now, it’s part of a growing category of elusive ‘dark comets’ – and we might find more soon.
Once the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer couldn’t survey widely anymore, NASA scientists switched gears and began using the spacecraft for planetary defense.
Ramses, a European space mission to study the asteroid Apophis, has been approved for perparatory work.
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