The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...
Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...
Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronomers have spotted an asteroid the size of nearly eight ...
An artist’s conception zeroes in on a main-belt asteroid called 2025 MN45, which makes a full rotation in less than two minutes. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA / P.
Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...
Asteroid 40 Harmonia reaches opposition at 10 A.M. EST. You can catch the 9th-magnitude main-belt world in binoculars or a telescope this evening in Gemini, where it lies just under 2.5° southeast of ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The stargazing calendar for 2026 gets off to a bit of a contrary ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention ...
NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...
A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the ...
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...