February 2020

When the sun enters its red giant stage in about six billion years, scientists say it will cause a chain reaction of asteroid explosions in the asteroid belt. These small rocky bodies will explode thanks to the YORP effect, a…

"Not only will our own asteroid belt be destroyed, but it will be done quickly and violently."Angry sunBefore it finally goes out, scientists say, our Sun will suddenly become so bright that it will reduce the entire asteroid belt to dust,…

The Sun has a very limited amount of energy and in about five billion years it will cease to be so. However, when he dies, he will go extinct in a burst of glory, wreaking havoc in the solar system and the asteroid belt.The planets inside…

The light from a dying star is so intense that it can reduce asteroids to dust. A new study says this will happen to most of the stars currently burning in the Universe, including the Sun, which will shatter its asteroid belt into…

Researchers predict that the Sun will destroy our solar system's asteroid belt in six billion years. A new study from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (via Sci-News) predicts that when the Sun becomes a white dwarf,…

According to new research by scientists at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado, scientists at Boulder, electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their giant branch phase - lasting only a few million years.…

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the gradual self-destruction of an asteroid, whose dusty…