Estimating the mass of a potentially dangerous asteroid remains a key parameter for planetary protection, but traditional radio frequency tracking methods do not allow accurate measurement of small ...

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to another world, including Earth, according to a ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets – including Earth – and survive, a new Johns Hopkins ...

Perry Wood Primary and Griffin Schools Trust launch a hands-on Science Symposium, 2–6 March, with experiments, stargazing, and Open ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

The Rubin Observatory’s real-time alert system can detect millions of cosmic events per night, from asteroids to supernovae, ...