Astronomers have discovered what may be our Solar System’s second known interstellar visitor, a comet that is moving too fast on a highly eccentric orbit to be bound by the Sun’s gravity. This follows the passage of the asteroid (or perhaps spacecraft?) known as ‘Oumuamua through our Solar System inread more
The Israeli and Indian space programs may have suffered setbacks with the recent loss of their lunar landers, but China’s Yutu-2 rover is still crawling across the surface of the Moon, and it made an odd discovery recently. On July 28, Yutu-2 stumbled upon a perplexing sight: shortly before poweringread more
Jupiter has found itself in the spotlight again, this time with news that reports of the demise of its famous Great Red Spot may have been greatly exaggerated, and also that the Solar System’s largest planet may have once again been impacted by a large object that left a brightread more
Earth had a close brush with a large “city-killer” asteroid on July 25, when a pyramid-sized rock whizzed by at less than one-fifth the distance to the Moon at nearly 25 km per second (15.5 miles per second). While not big enough to be a civilization ender, this asteroid hadread more