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What are asteroids made of?

When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...
Michael Bay movies are often crowd pleasers, but near the top of any list of Bay’s best movies has to be his outer space ...
Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory, boasting the world's largest digital camera, has discovered a mountain-sized asteroid, 2025 ...
It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...
NASA Was Caught Off Guard by What the Lucy Probe Just Detected ...
A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.
An artist's rendering of 2025 MN45 - the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever found. Photo: NSF-DOE ...
NGC 7331, the sight of supernova SN2025rbs, imaged by George Gheirchi (US).
For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...
The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...
It is important to realize that life does not end here. The trials and tribulations of life are much longer than one semester ...