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2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...
Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing asteroid first spotted in December 2024.
Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the ...
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and ...
From October 2023 to December 2024 — a period encompassing two solar eclipses across the U.S., two new NASA heliophysics missions, and one spacecraft’s history-making solar flyby — NASA celebrated the ...
Vaonis' Hestia combines a telescope and camera into an all-in-one package that will turbocharge your phone for astroimaging.
Japanese carmaker Honda announced it will be testing a regenerative hydrogen fuel cell system that could be used to power a ...
A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...
Honda is aiming beyond Earth with plans to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system aboard the International Space Station. In partnership with Sierra Space and ...
Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...
Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...
Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...