Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system
31 January 2018
First seen in October 2017, the space rock 'Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space – and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form
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Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn’s moons could be ancient rings
12 December 2017
A series of parallel lines on Saturn’s moons Dione and Rhea have scientists scratching their heads. Could they be a sign of rings that crashed to the surface?
That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet
8 December 2017
'Oumuamua, an oddly shaped asteroid from beyond our solar system, recently passed by. It may have formed when a planet was ripped into fragments by its star
We got a good look at the interstellar asteroid and it’s weird
20 November 2017
Our first detailed glimpse at ‘Oumuamua, the interstellar asteroid that recently flew by Earth, shows it’s one of the weirdest asteroids we’ve ever seen
Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star
9 November 2017
Last month, astronomers saw the first asteroid from outside our solar system speed by. Now, they're tracing its orbit back to find out where it came from
Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres
25 October 2017
NASA has extended the mission of the Dawn probe around the icy dwarf planet Ceres. It will dip toward Ceres's surface and study its tenuous atmosphere
A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995
25 October 2017
Don’t feel so bad for losing your keys. Astronomers somehow lost a huge space rock first seen 22 years ago – and it’s far from the first cosmic object to go missing
The mysterious bright spots on Ceres may have a common origin
2 October 2017
The dwarf planet Ceres is dappled with mysterious bright splotches. Their make-up varies with location, but they may all come from the same process
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid
22 September 2017
On its way to collect dust samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’S OSIRIS-REx spaceship will slingshot around Earth, passing 17,000 kilometres above Antarctica
The hottest place ever recorded on Earth's surface was 2370°C
13 September 2017
When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370°C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth’s crust
