Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

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In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

My friend Larry Lebofsky has been studying asteroids since we first met as students, more than 50 years ago. Now approaching 80 years old, he still spends a ...

An American high school student has stunned the scientific world by developing an algorithm to map 1.5 million previously unknown space objects using overlooked NASA data, revolutionising modern ...

“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

What began as a summer learning project has turned into a scientific discovery. An American high school student has ...

Scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and the ...

He won over $250,000 for the discovery of 1.5 million unidentified objects.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a massive gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, the same elements that form stars.