Tag: planets

Moon-Forming Region Seen Around Planet in Another Solar System

Scientists for the first time have spotted a moon-forming region around a planet beyond our solar system—a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disk of gas and dust massive enough that it could spawn three moons the size of the one orbiting Earth. The researchers used the ALMA observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert to detect the…


Largest Asteroid of the Year Will Pass By Earth on March 21

An asteroid will be at its closest to Earth on March 21 and is expected to be the largest asteroid that will pass by us in 2021. According to NASA, this asteroid, dubbed 2001 FO32, will make its closest approach at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers). At such a great…