Trilobites: This Asteroid Shouldn’t Be Where Astronomers Found It

Space rocks like 2004 EW95 are common between Mars and Jupiter. The discovery of the object…

Trilobites: Diamonds in a Meteorite May Be a Lost Planet’s Fragments

The space rock crashed in a desert in Sudan in 2008, and the flaws in its…

Trilobites: The Lunar Eclipse and Super Blue Moon Are Here. Watch It Before Work.

On Wednesday, Earth will cast its shadow over the second full moon of January, making it…

Trilobites: An 8th Planet Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star, With A.I.’s Help

A Google neural network analyzed data collected by NASA and helped astronomers detect another planet around…

Trilobites: Astronomers Race to Study a Mystery Object From Outside Our Solar System

The object, faster than known asteroids or comets, was first spotted by a telescope in Hawaii,…

Trilobites: Rosetta’s Lost Picture From Moments Before It Struck a Comet

One year after the spacecraft dived into Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, it gave scientists a gift from beyond…

Trilobites: A Deep Blue Vision of Earth From an Asteroid Hunter

As it slingshotted past Earth at 19,000 miles per hour on Friday, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft made…

Trilobites: Three Planets Will Slide Behind the Moon in an Occultation

The moon will momentarily block Venus, then Mars and then Mercury, offering a vivid reminder of…

Cassini Is Gone. Here Are the Next Space Missions to Watch Out For.

Now that Cassini has gone out in a blaze of glory, here's our guide to cosmic…

Scientists to Take Flight for Longer Views of the Eclipse

Specialized jets will be used to grab data about the sun that cannot be collected from…