COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,500 people and causing widespread ...
Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS recently made its closest pass of the Sun, or perihelion, brightening up in observations as solar radiation caused it to shed gases at an immense rate. The ...
When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...