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Fomalhaut, the 18th brightest star visible in the night sky, is orbited by the compact light source Fomalhaut b, which has been previously interpreted as either…
Composite image of Fomalhaut’s dust belt (center hidden). The inset displays dust cloud cs1 taken in 2012 together with dust cloud cs2 from 2023. NASA, ESA,…
An artistic representation of a satellite in Earth’s orbit Yusery Yilmaz/Shutterstock In the event that all satellites ceased their ability to maneuver, a collision would likely…
Ryan Wills. Barry Hetherington. ESA; NASA; Adobe Stock For over five decades, Richard Binzel has been studying the skies for potentially hazardous asteroids. In 1995, he…
New Polana Collisional Family The primary asteroid belt in our solar system is the source of insights about nearby asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, which…
Illustration of black hole merger Shutterstock / Jurik Peter New records for black holes have transformed our understanding of the universe’s most extreme entities. The Laser…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 may create the largest lunar impact in the past 5,000 years Mark Garlic/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Originally believed to be on a collision…
“That’s the million-dollar question,” he remarked. “I don’t have a very satisfactory answer.” There are three distinct types of Sargassum found in the Caribbean and surrounding…
The Milky Way galaxy is often believed to be on a collision path with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. This merger, anticipated roughly 5 billion years in…
Analysis from the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and ALMA data indicates that intense radiation from a quasar within these galaxies affects the gas properties of…
Discarded Soviet-era spacecrafts do not pose a significant risk to Earth, according to experts. The Kosmos-482, initially designed for a mission to land on Venus, has…
The generation of top quark pairs is observed This process of interaction between atomic nuclei was observed for the first time in lead-lead collisions at CERN's…
Approximately 50,000 collision avoidance maneuvers were performed by satellites in SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in the first half of 2024. This number reflects the growing concern about…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have discovered a merging pair of gas-rich galaxies that existed 12.8 billion years ago…
To prevent a fate similar to the dinosaurs, The European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated work on a groundbreaking planetary defense mission known as the Rapid…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope discovered a giant asteroid impact around Beta Gactris, the second brightest star in the constellation Scorpio. Chen othersBeta…
According to physicists, CMS cooperation This is the first time this process has been observed in proton-proton collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This is…
This cosmic encounter is known as Arp 122, and here: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Two spiral galaxies, NGC 6040 and NGC 6039, have merged on the…