In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...
Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...
A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...
Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of ...
A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...
Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.
Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has ...
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 ...
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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 […] ...
The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...