Astronomers have spotted three near-Earth asteroids that were lurking undetected within the glare of the sun. One of the asteroids, called 2022 AP7, is the largest potentially hazardous object posing a risk to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years. Their findings were published Monday in The Astronomical Journal. According to the publication, […]
A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid today at 7:14 p.m. ET after launching 10 months ago as part of a planetary protection program. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will attempt to affect the motion of an asteroid in space. A live stream of images captured by the spacecraft […]
NASA scientists have captured an unprecedented explosion on the surface of a massive red supergiant star known as Betelgeuse, the space agency said in a press release. Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories to determine that the senior star actually blew off part of its surface. The researchers said the explosion caused […]