Asteroid Fragment Reveals a Strange Mineral Never Seen on Earth
The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered…
World’s largest digital camera likely to discover interstellar objects, millions of asteroids
For a telescope designed to create the largest movie of the night sky, one small comet shooting through…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System
A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered…
Study Reveals Cause of Potentially Damaging Electrical Discharges on Satellites
Using data collected by sensors on the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STP-Sat6) in…
The Night Sky This Week
The ‘Blood Worm Moon’ total lunar eclipse is seen above Austin, TX on March 14, 2025. (Photo by…
James Webb Telescope Finds Carbon-Rich Planet Nursery
In a cosmic twist worthy of a sci-fi plot, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to…
How small is Earth? Exploring the vast scale of galaxies, clusters and beyond
From the ground beneath our feet to the farthest reaches of intergalactic space, the universe stretches far beyond…
Think Voyager was alone? Humanity has sent more missions to the outer solar system than you think!
The outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, have long fascinated astronomers and the public alike. These gas…
What did NASA’s Juno mission discover about Jupiter? Here are 5 mind-blowing findings..
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, peeling back layers of mystery around the Solar System’s…
Inside the massive storm bigger than Earth
Voyager 2’s observations transformed planetary science. For the first time, astronomers could study the Great Red Spot as…
Cataclysmic crash with neighboring planet may be the reason there’s life on Earth today, new studies hint
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Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are Part of Polana Collisional Family, Webb Observations Suggest
The new Polana collisional family in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt is the hypothesized origin of the…