Tag: asteroids

December 13, 2025 at 9:48 am

The Best Estimates For The Age Of Our Solar System Is About 4.55 Billion Years, But The Measurement Method Is Difficult And Imprecise

Solar System

It has been around for a long time.

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November 2, 2025 at 3:55 pm

Supermassive Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia May Be Made Of Elements Beyond The Periodic Table

Asteroid in space

What could you even do with an element like this?

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July 11, 2025 at 3:48 pm

The Mini-Moons That Occasionally Travel Alongside The Earth Might Not Be What We Thought

Moon in the sky

Apparently we (sometimes) have more moons than most people believe.

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March 7, 2025 at 9:49 am

Tucked Away In The Payload Bay Of The Most Recent SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Is A Private Spacecraft That Aims To Mine Minerals From Asteroids In Deep Space

A SpaceX rocket launch

A future in which our precious metals are obtained from space is almost a reality.

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February 14, 2025 at 3:49 pm

European Space Agency Launches Their Hera Spacecraft To Investigate The Wreckage Of An Intentional NASA Asteroid Crash

Source: Shutterstock

A space-based crash site investigation sounds incredible. 

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February 13, 2025 at 12:55 pm

New Paper On Fast Radio Bursts Proposes Potential Explanation For These Super-Massive Explosions In Space

Source: Shutterstock

The amount of energy in FRBs is wild!

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January 4, 2025 at 9:49 am

NASA’s Planetary Defense Telescope (NEOWISE) Crashes Into The Atmosphere After An Impressive Life Of Nearly 15 Years

NASA Neowise Planetary Defense Satellite

What an incredible mission.

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November 21, 2024 at 3:48 pm

Unusual Object Studied By James Webb Space Telescope Found To Be Emitting Jets Of Gas In Never Before Seen Display

Source: James Webb Space Telescope

Space is filled with unusual things that we still don’t understand. 

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November 15, 2024 at 3:48 pm

NASA Smashed An Asteroid, And Now The Debris Is Headed Right For Us

Source: Rawpixel

Hopefully, we’ll never have to worry about saving the world this way.

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November 2, 2024 at 3:22 pm

Meteor Detected Hours Before Its Impact With Earth Allows Astronomers To Capture Incredible Videos Of The Event

Source: Catalina Sky Survey

It is a little terrifying how many objects are coming toward Earth at any given time.

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