The Earth and its moon are locked together in a codependent embrace. How does the moon…
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Moon’s volcanoes were erupting only 120 million years ago
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | The lunar maria – once thought to be seas –…
How asteroid Phaethon can spawn the Geminid meteors
Artist’s concept of asteroid 3200 Phaethon – parent object of the Geminid meteor shower – near…
Jupiter’s moon slammed and tipped by giant asteroid?
A new study shows that some 4 billion years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Jupiter’s…
Small asteroid to hit Earth’s atmosphere TODAY
A small asteroid, just discovered hours ago, will hit Earth’s atmosphere above the Philippines around 16:46…
Direct black hole images that are 50% clearer?
View full image. | Computer simulation from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) of what a…
Pioneer 11 swept past Saturn 45 years ago today
Pioneer 11 caught this image of Saturn when the spacecraft was 1,768,422 miles (2,846,000 km) from…
Water on exoplanets is mostly hidden deep inside
View larger. | Artist’s concept of K2-18b, a mini-Neptune or sub-Neptune exoplanet about 124 light-years from…
4 asteroids named for amateur astronomer’s great-grandparents
Filipp Romanov is an amateur astronomer in Russia who has discovered 4 asteroids. He proposed naming…
New Horizons measures the darkness of deep space
New Horizons, the mission that swept past Pluto in 2015 and then into the deep outer…