September 2017

In 2011, a panoramic sounding telescope and rapid response system or PanSTARRS sounding detected an object in the asteroid belt displaying comet-like activity. So, in addition to being labeled as an asteroid, when it was discovered five…

Sep 21, 2017Travel to SPACE is expensive. Missions such as Cassini, a recently completed exploration of Saturn and its moons, and New Horizons, a trip to Pluto and one or two more distant objects in the far reaches of the solar system,…

Scientists have long been intrigued by surfaces of terrestrial bodies other than Earth which reveal deep similarities under their superficially different volcanic and tectonic histories. A team of scientists from NASA, Hampton University…

Photo of Io with a volcanic plume at the top. Credit: The University of Hong Kong…

Scientists have long been intrigued by surfaces of terrestrial bodies other than Earth which reveal deep similarities under their superficially different volcanic and tectonic histories. A team of scientists from NASA, Hampton University…

The asteroid belt may have started empty, later becoming a "cosmic refugee camp" taking the remnants of planetary formation from across the solar system, according to a new study.The main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars…

The asteroid belt may have started empty and was populated with objects from all over the solar system. Credit:…

The study claims that C-type asteroids, which contain carbon, were blown out of gas giants while S-type asteroids, which contain silicates and are mainly found in the inner asteroid belt, originated from rocky planets. ."Models of the…