Tag: Comets/Asteroids

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...

Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it ...

Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, ...

Credit: University of Central Florida The 49ers who panned for gold during California's Gold Rush didn't really know where they ...

Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...

Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO In late May and early June, Earthlings may be able to glimpse Comet SWAN. The comet is currently ...

Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasarsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian astrophysicists have come ...

Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and D. Jewitt (UCLA) These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken ...

A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object ...

Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO) A team of researchers from Russia and Greece has shown a way to determine ...

Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have ringsCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel ...

Credit: StarPlan, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of ...

Credit: Donald Brownlee/University of Washington Very occasionally, Earth gets bombarded by a large meteorite. But every day, our planet gets ...