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Asteroids are rocky objects that move around a solar system. They are often too small to be considered planets, and are more often considered minor planets. Asteroids orbit the sun, but not in the characteristic "disc" orbit that regular planets do.
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MAY 16, 2022Space & Astronomy
Fans of the show The Expanse will undoubtedly know about Ceres Station, with its six million inhabitants, artificial gra ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 06, 2022Chemistry & Physics
NASA is working towards landing humans on the Moon in 2024, the first visit in the 21st century. This time the crew ...Written By: Amanpreet KaurMAY 05, 2022Chemistry & Physics
For life to exist, five informational units of DNA and RNA are required. These units are called nucleobases and are esse ...Written By: Amanpreet KaurAPR 14, 2022Earth & The Environment
In 2020, when I was still working at a small natural history museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, I started to hear whis ...Written By: Timothy JamesJAN 03, 2022Space & Astronomy
Are we alone in the Universe? If not, why haven't we heard from anyone? If we are alone, then are we the first, or even ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 23, 2021Chemistry & Physics
Many of us played with magnets when we were children, and for some, it was the first scientific principle we learned. Ma ...Written By: Hannah DanielOCT 02, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 23, 2021Microbiology
Microbes can be used like little factories to churn out important or valuable chemicals. Now researchers are learning ho ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 14, 2021Space & Astronomy
NASA can detect asteroids, so there's been plenty of speculation about what might happen if we discover an asteroid ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 30, 2021Space & Astronomy
In this NASA image from Bill Ingalls, a meteor can be seen in the sky, one far less destructive than the asteroid that c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 05, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Kobe University in Japan have found that heat generated by the impact of small astronomical bodies coul ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 15, 2021Space & Astronomy
Scientists know that water is abundant in the solar system- existing in the rings of Saturn and on its moon, Enceladus. ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 12, 2021Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists has found that each year, 5,200 tons of dust falls from space to Earth. This far out ...Written By: Annie LennonMAR 09, 2021Space & Astronomy
Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx have spent years trying to intercept asteroids & collect samples. This meteor made it a little ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 17, 2021Space & Astronomy
The Chicxulub impactor is thought to have crashed into Earth around 66 million years ago near the Mexican coast. The cra ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 14, 2020Earth & The Environment
A study published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment comments on the reasons why Earth ha ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 12, 2020Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from Serbia have found that invisible structures created by gravitational interaction in our Solar System ge ...Written By: Annie LennonOCT 22, 2020Space & Astronomy
There was a time when scientists had to wait for an asteroid to fall to Earth before they could study one.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 27, 2020Space & Astronomy
Researchers say that a space rock that landed in Costa Rica on April 23rd, 2019, came from an asteroid that exists as a ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 26, 2020Space & Astronomy
Over the roughly 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence, there have been several periods were biodiversity has been near ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 24, 2020Space & Astronomy
NASA has said that an asteroid known as 2018VP1 is heading towards Earth, and may potentially collide with our planet on ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 30, 2020Space & Astronomy
During a project sponsored by Space India and NASA, two schoolgirls aged 14 in the 10th grade discovered an asteroid nea ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 19, 2020Chemistry & Physics
A recent study published in Scientific Reports sheds light on how our planet’s water could have first come to be. ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 07, 2020Space & Astronomy
If you were following space news outlets back in 2017, then you likely heard about the particularly odd cigar-shaped spa ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
MAY 16, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Fans of the show The Expanse will undoubtedly know about Ceres Station, with its six million inhabitants, artificial gra
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 06, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
NASA is working towards landing humans on the Moon in 2024, the first visit in the 21st century. This time the crew
...
Written By:
Amanpreet Kaur
MAY 05, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
For life to exist, five informational units of DNA and RNA are required. These units are called nucleobases and are esse
...
Written By:
Amanpreet Kaur
APR 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In 2020, when I was still working at a small natural history museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, I started to hear whis
...
Written By:
Timothy James
JAN 03, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Are we alone in the Universe? If not, why haven't we heard from anyone? If we are alone, then are we the first, or even
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 23, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
Many of us played with magnets when we were children, and for some, it was the first scientific principle we learned. Ma
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
OCT 02, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 23, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes can be used like little factories to churn out important or valuable chemicals. Now researchers are learning ho
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 14, 2021
Space & Astronomy
NASA can detect asteroids, so there's been plenty of speculation about what might happen if we discover an asteroid
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 30, 2021
Space & Astronomy
In this NASA image from Bill Ingalls, a meteor can be seen in the sky, one far less destructive than the asteroid that c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Kobe University in Japan have found that heat generated by the impact of small astronomical bodies coul
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 15, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Scientists know that water is abundant in the solar system- existing in the rings of Saturn and on its moon, Enceladus.
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 12, 2021
Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists has found that each year, 5,200 tons of dust falls from space to Earth. This far out
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 09, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx have spent years trying to intercept asteroids & collect samples. This meteor made it a little
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
The Chicxulub impactor is thought to have crashed into Earth around 66 million years ago near the Mexican coast. The cra
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2020
Earth & The Environment
A study published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment comments on the reasons why Earth ha
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 12, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from Serbia have found that invisible structures created by gravitational interaction in our Solar System ge
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
OCT 22, 2020
Space & Astronomy
There was a time when scientists had to wait for an asteroid to fall to Earth before they could study one.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 27, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Researchers say that a space rock that landed in Costa Rica on April 23rd, 2019, came from an asteroid that exists as a
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 26, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Over the roughly 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence, there have been several periods were biodiversity has been near
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 24, 2020
Space & Astronomy
NASA has said that an asteroid known as 2018VP1 is heading towards Earth, and may potentially collide with our planet on
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 30, 2020
Space & Astronomy
During a project sponsored by Space India and NASA, two schoolgirls aged 14 in the 10th grade discovered an asteroid nea
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 19, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
A recent study published in Scientific Reports sheds light on how our planet’s water could have first come to be.
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 07, 2020
Space & Astronomy
If you were following space news outlets back in 2017, then you likely heard about the particularly odd cigar-shaped spa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard