It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

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 ...

Asteroids are one of the most interesting space objects found in the blank, which remain in the form of space debris left ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE ...

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).

When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Register now for the classes that will be offered through Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning on the Oak Ridge Roane ...

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 ...