Discovered last year, this object from beyond our solar system continues to be studied by astronomers around the world, including researchers from the University of Liège.
An asteroid about the size of a very large house – 25 meters in diameter – passed within just 91,593 kilometers of Earth's surface on Monday, May 18, at around 11:30 p.m., roughly a quarter of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
2023CX1 demonstrates that a complete chain, from telescopes to simulators to meteorite hunters, can work within hours.
This third interstellar object detected triggered a global scientific mobilisation involving the TRAPPIST telescopes.
Cracking the Comet Cold Case: the analysis with modern techniques of old archived photographic plates taken in 1908 of one of the brightest comets of the past, uncovered a unique composition and explain previously unexplained behaviors.
Astronomers report the detection of 138 decameter rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, the smallest ever detected with implications for the asteroid population and the planetary defense.
An international team of Planetary Astronomers led by the Queen’s University of Belfast has conducted a study to uncover one of the Solar Systems mysteries; what happened to the large and distant icy asteroid Chiron.
An international team using a global all-sky cameras network has investigated the lifetime of cm-sized meteoroids from their abundance in about 500 meteoroid streams of different age.
Students of the Master in Space Sciences from the University of Liège and the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech spent a week under the starry sky of the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco as part of their course.
Jehin is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter at about 200 million km from the Earth.
Moins d'un an après la sortie du film Don't Look Up!, la sonde DART de la NASA percutait un astéroïde et modifiait sa trajectoire. Des chercheurs de l'ULiège ont participé à cette mission.
An international team of scientists including astronomers of the Liège University, has measured a small change in the rotation period of asteroid Phaethon.
