
Its discovery could help scientists clarify how they classify objects that are either a brown dwarf or an extrasolar planet.
This new phase is called the second Kuiper Extended Mission, or KEM2.
TOI 700 e is nearly as big as Earth, likely rocky, and has a 28-day orbit around an M dwarf star located 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.
Malcolm Loro’s image won him Photo of the Week for Dec. 3-9, 2022, and Dale Boan gets an honourable mention.
Bits of asteroid Bennu will parachute back to Earth from space later this year, on Sept. 24, 2023.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)’s trajectory shows that it last flew by Earth roughly 50,000 years ago.
Bill Batchelor won Photo of the Week for the period of Jan. 7-13, 2023.
Steve Leonard won Photo of the Week for the period of Dec. 31, 2022 to Jan. 6, 2023.
The federal government plans to develop a new regulatory framework for this emerging sector.
Oleg Bouevitch won Photo of the Week for Dec. 24-30, 2022, and Kimberly Sibbald’s “Noctilucent Clouds with Aurora” received an honourable mention.
Three major meteor showers, including the Perseids, arrive with the Moon mostly out of the way this year.
The number of active satellites in orbit (as of November 4, 2022 at 16:05:27 UTC) is 6,843 — 3,273 of which are Starlink units, up from 1,655 on September 1, 2021.
Astronomers and NASA had their eye on 2022 WJ1, a small asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
NASA’s MAVEN observed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously.
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) began as the Toronto Astronomical Club on December 1, 1868. The eight men who gathered to share their interests were not professional astronomers, just working-class citizens with a passion for astronomy.