Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...
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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.
From collisions to stellar cannibalism—the surprising diversity of exploding white dwarfs
Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...
An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen, and should we worry?
An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...
Will an asteroid collide with Earth? How the Webb telescope will track 2024 YR4
The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Read up on the latest Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Your comment has not been saved "This is where the fun begins..." Look, how ...