Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've all heard about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a colossal rock 10 kilometers wide. However, there are some ...

An artist's illustration shows the James Webb Space Telescope peering out into the solar system toward the asteroid belt. Ella Maru and Julien de Wit Every few years, an asteroid that’s about the size ...

Image Credit: N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), ESO/M. Kornmesser and S. Brunier, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) A previously unknown 100–200-metre asteroid — roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — has been ...

Back in October 2021, a spacecraft called Lucy took off from Cape Canaveral. Named after the remnants of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Africa in the 1970s, it is supposed to shed ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as Brooklyn. Such a massive impactor is predicted to hit Earth rarely, once ...

The Main Asteroid Belt's smallest ever asteroids have been detected, as discovered in a new study. The belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and smaller rocks orbiting among the ...

The majority of the known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance from Earth of about 250 millions kilometers. Since the discovery of the ...

An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing a population of small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have ...