August 2021

Asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids have long played a role in popular fascination with…

An astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science has just discovered a new asteroid, and it's the fastest orbiting asteroid in our solar system, but speed is just one of the weird attributes of space rock. Unexplored space:…

introduction The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything gravity-bound to it - the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,…

An artist's design of the recently discovered asteroid 2021 PH27, which has the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and the second shortest for any object in our solar system after Mercury. Illustration by Katherine Cain…

An illustration of the 2021 PH27 Orbit, by Katherine Cain and Scott Sheppard, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. | carnegiescience.edu Text size: A- A + New Delhi:…

Artist's concept of transneptunian objects in the outer solar system. They are generally much redder than the asteroids in the main asteroid belt because they have more complex organic materials covering their surface. Could the 2…

Comets other star systems, such as 2019 Borisov, visit the Sun's vicinity more frequently than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.The study, based on data collected Borisov zipped through Earth at a distance of about 185 million…

Do you want to be the first person in 175 years to discover a new planet in our solar system? Just follow the map. Well that's not all this easy. You will need a huge telescope, a lot of time, and at least some understanding…

The recent detection of 2I / Borisov, the first known interstellar comet to visit our solar system, implies that interstellar objects outnumber non-interstellar objects in the Oort cloud, while the reverse is true near the Sun in due to…

In the past four years, astronomers have spotted two visitors to the solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. Both have provided an abundance of data that will be…

A new asteroid zips around the sun faster than any of its known relatives.The space rock, known as 2021 PH27, orbits our star once every 113 Earth days, according to its discoverers. It is the shortest orbital period of any known object…

The Oort cloud at the edge of our solar system could be filled with interstellar objects, scientists say.The new document comes in the wake of the arrival of Borisov, a snowball that made its way to Earth in 2019 and turned out to be from…

The most recent NASA asteroid data paints a grim picture. There are over 25,000 asteroids circling the solar system like a huge pack of hungry wolves, and over 9,000 of them are listed as near-Earth objects. But these are only the ones…

Carolyn Shoemaker, one of America's greatest female astronomers, has passed away. Remarkably, she ** started ** her astronomical career in 1980, at age 51! In the 1980s and 1990s, she used films taken with the Palomar Observatory's…

Sunday 22 AugustThe Moon passes 4 ° south of Jupiter at 1 a.m. EDT. At this time, both are some 35 ° high in the southern sky, impossible to miss. Jupiter, which appears directly above the Moon, has a magnitude of…

Well it's interesting: NASA launches spaceship to explore asteroids on Artemis I, the first test flight in their attempt to return to the moon. The spaceship is called Near-Earth Asteroid, or NEA Scout, and get this: it uses a…

July and August are generally considered the hottest months of the year in Canada. Nights can be hot and stuffy, making it difficult to sleep without air conditioning. One term you may have heard to describe this hot season is…

Where did the dinosaur killer asteroid come from? It is a question of great scientific interest and fascinating to the public. We know that 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-sized asteroid crashed into Earth just off what is…

Where did the dinosaur killer asteroid come from? It is a question of great scientific interest and fascinating to the public. We know that 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-sized asteroid crashed into Earth just…

L 98-59 is a shiny M dwarf located at 10.6 pc. Located on the border of the continuous observation zone of the James Webb Space Telescope, this system is destined to become a cornerstone of the comparative exoplanetology of terrestrial…

It's that time of year again! The Perseid meteor shower, which peaks this week, is eagerly awaited by observers who hope to enjoy the spectacular sight of several meteors raining down on balmy summer nights. A stunning composite image of…

NASA's mission to study the asteroid Psyche Highlights Asteroid Psyche is the largest!--component_10>…

Scientists say it was a "dark asteroid" that killed the dinosaurs after it slammed into Earth 66 million years ago. They estimate that the six-mile space rock comes from the outer edges of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,!-->…

In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it appears that two interplanetary visitors have made their home there.203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia are much redder than any other object we've seen lying around in the densely populated…

China has inaugurated an extraordinary astronomical…

An asteroid said to be filled with precious metals worth over 10,000 quadrillion dollars (8,072 quadrillion pounds) is currently in our solar system. Asteroid "Psyche 16" is a 124-mile-wide space rock that orbits the sun in the asteroid!-->…

The star L 98-59 is only 35 light years from Earth and its orbiting planets have attracted the interest of experts. Two of them, closest to the star, are probably dry, but an "ocean world" could be a prime candidate to support alien life.…

Shot by Ma Xuefeng. Edited by Ma Xuefeng and Li Fei. Subtitles by Cai Linxiao and Emma Leaning. How to plan an immersive space trip in Shanghai? All you need to do…

How do you track an asteroid that hit Earth over 60 million years ago? Using a combination of geology and computer simulations, at least according to a team of scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). These methods may…

Chennai: Scientists led by Sunao Hasegawa of JAXA, the Japanese space agency, reported Monday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that two objects spotted in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter appear to have come from beyond…

Without engaging in any fundraising, Loeb has already secured enough seed money to launch the Galileo project, and he has put together a research team that includes scientists (currently working on a voluntary basis) from Caltech,…

TThis month, it is worth turning your eyes to the night sky to observe the spectacular Perseid meteor shower. The rush hour will be around August 12, when up to 150 meteors per hour will whistle above our heads. Generated by Earth…

When you hear that there is an object in space that shouldn't be there, the immediate reaction can be panic. But objects found in our solar system's asteroid belt by a team of scientists are not of concern. On the…

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-KeithThe Sun releases a constant stream of particles and magnetic fields called the solar wind. This solar wind slams worlds across the solar system with particles and radiation -…