Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million ...

If you ever go hiking on an asteroid, you’ll want to pack one of Robert Gaskell’s maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is to our solar system’s frontier what Lewis and ...

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A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...

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From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of strange, wandering worlds are rewriting what we know – and even how we ...