Although they are thought of as rare, meteorites are actually quite common. About 40,000 tons of meteorites strike Earth every day. Most of them land in the ocean, and most are quite tiny, but they are still common enough that hobbyists all over the world find meteorites all the time. The most common place to find them is in arid regions where their coloring can stand out from the terrain. But even then a meteorite can be difficult to distinguish from terrestrial rocks.
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Hubble telescope spies 'peek-a-boo' exoplanets amid star's tilted dust rings
Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disc of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.
Live coverage: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket poised for launch today from California
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Lie Back, Look Up, and Find Your Zenith Stars
When you want to relax under the stars there's no better way than on your back looking up at the zenith. We explore what's overhead and discover there's more than one zenith up there.
China launches cargo mission to Tiangong space station
China's Tianzhou 6 freighter lifted off on May 10, sending clothing, food, water and propellant toward the country's Tiangong space station.
Chinese cargo ship launches to resupply space station
Six kerosene-fueled engines on the Long March 7 rocket generated 1.6 million pounds of thrust at full power. Credit: CCTV
China’s space station is set to receive delivery of fresh supplies, experiments, and fuel after the launch of the Tianzhou 6 cargo ship at 9:22 a.m. EDT (1322 UTC) Wednesday aboard a Long March 7 rocket.
'Oppenheimer' trailer reveals Cillian Murphy as Manhattan Project's genius bomb maker
Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."
Young star shoots out jet like a garden sprinkler in Orion Nebula (photo)
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a snaking jet of matter expelled from a young stellar object in the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery not far from our solar system.
Watch SpaceX launch 51 Starlink satellites to orbit today
SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (May 10), and you can watch the liftoff live.
Who is Cosmo the Spacedog? All you need to know about 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3's' telepathic pup
A history of Cosmo the Spacedog in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission will grow 1st stem cells in space
The Ax-2 mission will test the effect of microgravity in space on the growth of stem cells.
The mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may finally be solved
The mystery of how meteorites from Mars can reach Earth may have been solved, as scientists discover rocks can be hurled far from the Martian surface by giant impacts.
Space junk cleanup mission to launch in 2026 aboard Arianespace rocket
A spacecraft operated by Swiss startup ClearSpace will target a piece of debris in orbit after getting there aboard Arianespace's Vega-C rocket.
What time is it on the moon? How a lunar clock debate led to an out-of-this-world timepiece
What time is it on the moon? One wristwatch tried to answer that question, yet was largely forgotten by history.
Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA says
A bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit, a new study finds.
One in Ten Stars Ate a Jupiter (Or Bigger)
In space, cataclysmic events happen to stars all the time. Some explode as supernovae, some get torn apart by black holes, and some suffer other fates. But when it comes to planets, stars turn the tables. Then it’s the stars who get to inflict destruction.
China to launch communications relay satellite to the moon in early 2024
Queqiao 2 ('Magpie Bridge 2') will launch early next year and will be used to support China's upcoming Chang'e 6, 7 and 8 robotic moon missions.
Apparent meteorite strikes house in New Jersey (photos)
A meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in New Jersey on Monday (May 8). No one was injured by the space rock, which may be part of the ongoing Eta Aquarid meteor shower.
Building Planetary Systems That Could Last Forever
Vacations can be quite enjoyable. Visiting historic cities, lounging in the Sun on a tropical beach, or snuggling up at a cozy mountain resort. But while the destinations are great, traveling itself can be a chore. Crowds, cramped flights, delays. It would be great if there were some short cut to our destination. Now imagine the vacationers of a galactic empire. It’s great to visit the diamond shores of Exoticon 5, but nobody enjoys all that mucking about in hyperspace. So why not bring these worlds closer to home? That’s the idea behind a study recently published in MNRAS. It basically looks at how a super-advanced civilization might pack a bunch of planets into the habitable zone of a single star.
Rare 'backward' sunspot could create supercharged auroras this week
A reverse polarity sunspot is continuing to bombard Earth with powerful solar flares and ejections of plasma that could create auroras as far south as the mid-latitudes of the globe on May 10 and 11.
Enormous M87 galaxy looks like giant potato in 1st-ever 3D map (image)
Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole.
