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On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting in the rocky belt of debris located between Mars and Jupiter.

A solar system body is considered to be ‘in opposition’…

The best candidate yet for the elusive Planet Nine has been spotted in two deep infrared surveys taken 23 years apart. If this mystery object really is Planet Nine, it would have a mass greater than Neptune, and currently be about 700 times…

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

In a recent study, astrophysicist Or Graur analyzed 125 images of Nut (pronounced “Noot”)…

An underwater volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon is displaying signs of a potential eruption, University of Washington (UW) researchers found.

The volcano, Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 feet below the…

Changing the laws of time is functionally impossible, yet NASA has revealed that one gigantic man-made structure in China is so big that it might just have altered Earth’s rotation.

With the ever-looming Doomsday Clock ticking down, it would be…

Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years.

She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits like “Boogie Wonderland.”

“She just nails that…

The International Space Station (ISS) executed evasive maneuvers Wednesday evening (April 30) to avoid a piece of passing space debris.

Hardware from a Chinese Long March rocket that launched in 2005 was on course for a close flyby of the ISS,…

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years…

A dark, jagged rock formation on Mars, nicknamed Skull Hill, has caught the attention of NASA scientists. Spotted by the Perseverance rover on April 11 while…

MIT researchers have recently unveiled an innovative framework that organizes artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in a way that mirrors the periodic table of elements. This new “periodic table” categorizes algorithms based on their…