We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

Space myths stick because they sound neat. The real physics is weirder, sharper, and more beautiful once the haze clears. For ...

Forgot what science-fiction has told you, flying through an asteroid belt would be a major challenge for anyone.

What begins as a mining outpost can grow into a sovereign city state drifting between the stars. In the asteroid belt, ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space rock known as "2026 CC" measures ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta in 2011, it found a 500-kilometer-wide world scarred by two planet-scale impacts. One crater stretches over 100 kilometers across and rises 20–25 kilometers ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

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Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over ...