NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks would be just the second example of three gravitationally bound space rocks found in the Kuiper Belt, the doughnut-shaped region of icy … Read more
Clyde Tombaugh didn’t set out to discover Pluto when he sent his sketches of the night sky to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1929. More than anything, he just wanted to get off the farm in Kansas where he spent his days working the earth. At just 23 years old, Tombaugh sent his drawings, … Read more
Khabib Nurmagomedov does not want UFC champions Islam Makhachev and Belal Muhammad to fight. UFC lightweight champion Makhachev is trained by Nurmagomedov and has made it clear that he is eager to move up to welterweight to become a two-division champion. 5 Makhachev and Nurmagomedov are two of the greatest UFC lightweights everCredit: AFP 5 … Read more