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"These nine objects are special."
Enjoy some out-of-this-world fun this Christmas with my selection of the best space board games available right now.
Reference Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. But some space rocks stray out of the main belt and threaten Earth.
"It would be hard, but may be doable."
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar."
"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them."
"The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get."
A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years — if it ever gets funded and approved.
The caldera may have blasted out its cryomagma in a single explosive event, or it may have spread its eruptions over time.
The high winds that birth dust devils can also revitalize robots by cleaning their solar cells.
"It remains possible that there are other unseen planets in the system. The challenge is finding them!"
"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away."
The unexpected 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory left NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar as the new heavy hitter when it comes to finding and studying asteroids.
Reference Roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of dark matter, a material that scientists cannot directly observe. So why do scientists think it dominates?
The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself.
Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially return samples from the moon's mantle back to Earth, providing insight into the final stages of lunar formation.
The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden population of lunar fragments traveling near Earth.
Reference Saturn has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Here we explore some of the 274 moons that orbit the ringed planet.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass star, finding it contains chemical signatures never seen before in such a disk.
Reference Black holes are some of the most fascinating objects in the universe.
Scientists found a new kind of cosmic signal in 2024, and still aren't quite sure what's causing it.
Scientists have been arguing about a curious topic recently: Did temperatures on the moon dip due to the world's Covid-19 lockdown?
Reference We explore how long it takes to get to Mars and the factors that affect a journey to the Red Planet.
