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The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...
Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...
Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...
The asteroid, which has the temporary designation C0WEPC5, has now become the 4th "imminent impactor" discovered in 2024, ...
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
The likelihood of the "God of Destruction" asteroid Apophis striking Earth in 2029 is more than 1 in 2 billion, according ...
A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.
Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...