Scots uni professor speaks out on asteroid plummeting towards Earth
Fears have grown about the asteroid since it was first spotted and expert astronomers admitted it has a chance of hitting ...
The Debrief1d
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Phenomena Behind the Deaths of Mysterious “Disintegrating Planets”
New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...
Astronomy1d
February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
Why Comet G3 (ATLAS) will be 'remembered as the Great Comet of 2025' (photos)
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...