The team's analysis indicates that gravitational interactions with Jupiter likely played a role in nudging the asteroid into the Earth-crossing orbit. The new observations also revealed that the ...

Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...

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YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...

SIMP 0136 is a rapidly rotating, free-floating object roughly 13 times the mass of Jupiter, located in the ... And its short ...

The team's analysis indicates that gravitational interactions with Jupiter likely played a role ... that the asteroid has a remarkably rapid rotation period of just 20 minutes.