Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Nostradamus's writings suggest that 2025 could bring significant challenges, including a potential asteroid collision and a plague-like outbreak in the UK. Nostradamus, a French astrologer and ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries. By Holland Cotter Sublime paintings from Siena, the birth of Impressionism and ...

While it is reassuring that AI algorithms like THOR and HelioLinc3D have accelerated asteroid detection at an unprecedented scale, minimizing the chances of an unexpected impact, studies are still ...

December 30, 2024 • NPR's member and affiliate station photographers share memorable moments from throughout 2024. December 26, 2024 • Among the vast destruction of buildings in Gaza, some ...

The newly developed equation is based on a geometric optics model This precision surpasses previous attempts The implications of this work extend beyond asteroid tracking In a groundbreaking ...

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