Author: Alina

How the bluest asteroid in the solar system got its color

The blue color of asteroid Phaethon has puzzled scientists since the space rock’s discovery in the early 1980s. An unusual blue-tinged asteroid likely got its trademark color from intense sunlight, new research finds, solving a decades-old mystery. The blue color of asteroid Phaethon has puzzled...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

  Feeling blue: The difference between Uranus and Neptune’s colors is hazy Now we might know why Neptune is a deeper blue in the face than Uranus. It comes down to a deep atmospheric layer that is full of haze. Neptune tends to recycle methane...