The Sun is 4.6 billion years old, but what did it look like in its early years?
Solar System
Solar System
Astronomy
How often does space rock hit the Earth’s atmosphere?
Space rock could be making its way through the Earth’s atmosphere more than we realise
FutureTech
Future Tech: Swarming the 300
An innovative new Finnish space mission recently presented to the European Planetary Science Congress could enable a massive survey of up to 300 asteroids
Solar System
Can asteroids have moons?
Planets can have moons but can large asteroids have them too?
Solar System
Ceres’ organic material most likely made by dwarf planet
After ruling out the transportation of substances by asteroids and comets, scientists conclude that organics likely originate from Ceres
News
Asteroid bombardment helped to support early life on Earth
In the first billion years of Earth’s history, the planet was bombarded by primordial space rocks, while a faint Sun provided much less heat
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High-speed instrument to hunt for Kuiper Belt objects
Astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth and closer to home
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Mystery behind Ceres’ spots could have finally been solved
Bright spots seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres are likely to be salt deposits
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Mysterious ripples found in planet-forming disc around nearby star
Moving features within the dusty disc surrounding young star AU Microscopii have been discovered
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Water reserves on Moon found to be delivered by asteroids
Water discovered on the lunar surface didn’t come from comets, according to new research
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FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 42
We take a brand new breathtaking tour of dwarf planet Pluto in the latest issue
Astronomy
Can I see any asteroids from Earth?
We find out if it’s easy to spot the chunks of space rock that litter our Solar System
Deep Space
How do we know Kepler-78b is a planet?
How do we know for sure that this distant world is an exoplanet and not a comet or an asteroid?
News
Six-tailed asteroid: “We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it.”
Just when comets were the only space rocks thought to have tails, along comes asteroid P/2013 P5 with six.
Solar System
Five amazing facts about asteroids
Find out what makes these space-faring rocks so interesting.