Vesta is currently in the asteroid belt, along with millions of other asteroids. Of course, while Earth has been hit many times by asteroids (in 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteor shattered over Russia ...

The 3:1 resonance with Jupiter is special, because for a century it appeared that there were no asteroids in the asteroid belt that exhibited this pattern, as well as at other seemingly arbitrary ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Some people in town today for the Yakima River Canyon Marathon may have been looking for a little running inspiration.

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The Kirkwood gaps are explained by asteroids similarly interacting with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, even while their average distance from the sun does not change. By dipping into the inner ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 1, 2025, the moon is 3 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar ...

Here’s the complete list of Full Moons this year and their traditional names. (All times Eastern; * denotes a Super Moon.) The images below show the day-by-day phases of the Moon in April.

Tracking a "city-killer" Astronomers first discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 in December 2024. Initial observations with ground-based telescopes indicated that the space rock had a diameter of about ...