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We May Be on the Brink of Finding the Real Planet Nine
If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...
Asteroids: School Students Make 11 New Discoveries
Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid-comet hybrid stuns scientists: ‘Like nothing we’ve seen before’
Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...
'Not Mars, not Jupiter': NASA finds frozen oceans in a small planet that could rewrite solar history
NASA reveals Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with frozen oceans and signs of ancient hydrothermal activity, ...
The world's largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.
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Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found hiding in JWST data
Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar ... in the main asteroid belt. Since 2016, de Wit and his team have used the Transiting Planets and ...
NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
Earth's mini moon makes big comeback—but not for long
During its recent mini-moon stint, scientists studied the 2024 PT5 from Earth. Based on the cosmic object's composition and ...
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Astronomers discover two populations of unusual dark comets in our solar system
Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth ... and may have originated from the main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and ...