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In the iconic 1980 film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo and his crew brave the dangers of an asteroid field while fleeing Imperial…
Artist Perspectives on the Kuiper Belt ESO/M.Kornmesser The Kuiper Belt, the outer disk of icy rock in our solar system, has been found to exhibit more…
NASA’s Lucy Mission is actively examining images obtained during its encounter with the carbonaceous asteroid Donald Johansson on April 20, 2025. Donald Johanson is located on…
Geologists have found significant evidence indicating the preservation of Hadean Rocks, with an age of 4.16 billion years. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt offers a rare glimpse…
Astronomers using Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) A telescope in southern Gemini determined that the recently discovered nearby asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of the largest objects…
Intel recently moved a large metal structure 140 miles north to one of its semiconductor plants in Ohio, an operation detailed minute by minute here.Local school…
Altozillaalso known as the 2001 UQ18, is located outside the solar system, 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles), or 44 times the distance between the Earth…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flies by the small asteroid Donald Johansson on April 20, 2025. By flashing between images captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on February 20th…
These asteroids are as small as 10 meters in diameter, making them the smallest asteroids ever observed in the major asteroid belt. Artist Webb's illustration reveals…
632 main-belt asteroids (178 known objects and 454 unknown objects) have been identified in archival images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Citizen scientists from around…
A pair of planetary scientists from Brown University and the SETI Institute have uncovered ancient ice deep within Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object (486958) that was…