Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing that thousands of rocky objects are hurtling through space at speeds that would make a Formula One car look like it’s crawling. Right now, as you read this, astronomers around the world are desperately trying to keep track of these cosmic wanderers, many of which could ...
Picture this: a small, spinning rock roughly the size of the Empire State Building, hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, carrying within its ancient surface the potential answers to humanity’s most profound question – how did life begin? This isn’t science fiction. This is Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid that has become one ...
The extraordinary features of a rapidly moving celestial object are scintillating astronomers’ interest. Upon initial discovery, A11pl3Z was given a name but recently NASA has confirmed it as 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object out of four comets or asteroids discovered. Unlike the comets or asteroids which are bound to the sun’s asteroid belt and viewable ...
