UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...
Scientists have discovered new characteristics of a small body which orbits the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, providing ...
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 ...
YF7 and 2024 YR9, will pass near Earth at safe distances on January 2nd. They provide opportunities for scientists to ...
Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...
One could argue that the quantum mechanical effects of the uncertainty principle on the system are overpowered by others, such as air molecules and photons hitting it or the thermal excitation of the ...
(NASA Image) (NASA) – NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list ... them have escaped the main belt over the solar system’s history, and even how meteorites ...
Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...
The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and ... the wreckage left behind from the inner solar system’s formation—and it’s always nice to spy more of those rocky time capsules for ...