Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

While the Southern Taurids already hit their peak last week, the Northern Taurids, active Oct. 13-Dec. 2 will be at their ...

The first definition would allow Pluto, along with Ceres and all of Pluto's co-orbital friends, to become planets. The latter definition would exclude all of those smaller bodies. Breaking space ...

This remarkable finding breaks the previous record for the shortest outer orbital period in such systems, which was ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Piazzi named it Ceres, after the goddess of agriculture ... Originally, the distance between them was approximately 1.1 kilometres and Dimorphos' orbital period was 11 hours 55 minutes. The controlled ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land. But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...

After the DART impact, that orbit was decreased by 33 minutes. DART made a deflection that reduced the orbital period, he says. The more we do the deflection in advance, the less energy we would ...

When I get together with my girlfriends we talk about all kinds of things. When I started my period that's who I wanted to talk about it. They could answer a lot of questions that I had ...

If you're in search for an orbital sander, there's a good chance that you are trying to smooth out some wood. Though, the tool does a lot more than just that, and in the process becomes a ...