The densest element on Earth can't compare. Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia might be what's called a compact ultradense object, or CUDO.

In a mounting crisis of tensions, US aircraft have bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordow – a uranium ...

Some asteroids are dense. So dense in fact, that they may contain heavy elements outside of the periodic table, according to a new study on mass density. The team of physicists from The University ...

Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia appears to be denser than the densest element in the Periodic Table. The densest naturally occurring element, Osmium, has 76 protons per atom. The asteroid could have more than ...

The densest, heaviest elements always sink to the core during planet formation, and gravitation compresses that core to be even denser than it would have been otherwise. But we don't have any such ...

Properties, sources and uses of the element osmium. Osmium is one of the densest elements in the world. It is a lustrous, bluish white, hard metal and can be brittle even at a high temperature.

Study: Asteroid known as Polyhymnia may contain 'superheavy' elements unknown to humans The asteroid named 33 Polyhymnia is so dense that researchers at the University of Arizona theorize that it ...