This Strange Comet-Asteroid Hybrid Is Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...
All the Space News We’re Excited About in 2025: Launches, First Lights, Flybys, and More
A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...
Fact Check: An Ice-Capped Crater Was Discovered on Mars. But Social Media Is Misrepresenting the Discovery
This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data gathered over orbits 18042 ...
Quadrantids Meteor Shower peaks TONIGHT with up to 80 shooting stars every hour - here's how to see the first celestial display of 2025
Fans of stargazing won't want to miss tonight's stunning display as the first meteor shower of the year lights up the sky ...
Double Trouble? Two large asteroids flying at high speed approaching Earth on January 3 says NASA
NASA reports that two asteroids, 2024 YC9 and 2024 YL1, will safely pass by Earth on January 3, 2025. Asteroid 2024 YC9, the ...
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‘Dark comets’ could reveal how Earth got its oceans
Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell us.
Meet The ‘Living Fossil’ That’s Older Than The Dinosaurs (Hint: It Also Survived A Nuclear Blast)
They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...
NASA’s Breakthrough Discovery Explains Vesta’s Mysterious Gullies
Cratered surfaces across our solar system reveal signs of ancient impacts, but mysterious gullies on Vesta might have formed through sudden brine flows triggered by meteoroid impacts. Recent ...
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Earth Might Have Had a Ring System Like Saturn Millions of Years Ago
The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.
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The Minor Planet Chiron Is Strange – And So Is Its Ice
The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices ...