Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...
NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...
Initially, both Uranus and Ceres were classified as planets. But once more objects were found to share similar orbits with Ceres, astronomers had to rethink things — surely, planets lived alone ...