About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...

New ALMA and JWST observations reveal why Wolf–Rayet star WR 112 produces tiny dust grains, showing a bimodal grain ...

Binary asteroid systems are abundant and common. Observations by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft have revealed an exchange of material between objects in such binary systems.

Each time another study about human-driven species extinction hits the news in Aotearoa New Zealand, a familiar pattern unfolds in online comment sections. As researchers in this field, we have seen ...

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

QBE Foundation has entered into a community partnership with the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES) to extend financial guidance services for women experiencing economic abuse across Australia, ...