NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, did more than shove a small asteroid into a tighter loop around its ...
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did more than shove a small moonlet off its local path. New peer-reviewed research confirms that the September 2022 collision measurably shifted the entire ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...
A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...