The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Less than six months after beginning its science operations, the Webb Telescope (JWST) unveiled numerous red objects in the sky that puzzled scientists. These objects, initially dubbed “little red ...

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Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Listen to Story Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive than Jupiter Gaia-5b is a brown dwarf, more massive than a planet The two planets were discovered by analysing the gravitational tug ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

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The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of ... on trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and far-away asteroids. These bodies are thought to be largely ...