Introducing YR4: An asteroid with a 1% chance of smashing into Earth
An asteroid set to swing by Earth in 2032 has small chance of smashing into our planet, but experts aren't panicking — yet.
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How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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SpaceX launching 2 Maxar Earth-observing satellites to orbit today
As that description notes, the WorldView Legion spacecraft are capable of resolving features as small as 12 inches (30 ...
Webb investigates dusty and dynamic protoplanetary disk HH 30
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is ...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mimics the moon's gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
The glow we see from distant galaxies is as old as Earth’s ancient rocks
One photographer put the age of starlight into perspective with stunning projections on some of Earth's oldest rock ...