Space

Asteroid 2024 FK1 is set to pass the Earth soon. The Jerusalem Post social media manager Noemi Szakács has asked me to measure it in French fries, so here it is.

Dark matter is supposed to be vital to the universe. A study by uOttawa's Prof. Rajendra Gupta claims that it isn't real and never existed, shattering the standard model of cosmology.

Asteroid 2024 EK3, around the size of three and a half adult female American bison (aka buffalo), and 2020 FU, the size of 16.5 John Cenas will pass Earth on the day Julius Caesar was killed.

The discovery sheds light on the age-old mysteries of how planets are formed, and in particular how much time young worlds have to consume gas before it drifts away.

Researchers in Switzerland used NASA to study Earth as if they were 30 light years away as a test for the LIFE mission to study exoplanets.

A large and red supermassive black hole was found in a distant galaxy during the early years of the universe is excessively big for its galaxy, raising more questions about early galaxy formation.

NASA sent the DART mission to hit an asteroid to try and change its orbit.

The proliferation of commercial space ventures has itself been driven by leaps in technology in recent decades.

The discovery of the neutron star at the center of the supernova finally puts to an end a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over three decades. 

The dwarf planets in question, Eris and Makemake, are both found in the Kuiper Belt past Neptune's orbit and are far from the Sun's warmth, similar to fellow dwarf planet Pluto.