Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4.6 billion years ago, with the…
The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets
We have an idea of what the solar system’s past was like: It was violent and chaotic. However,…
NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System
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NASA Astronaut Shares Mesmerising Timelapse Of Crystals Growing In Microgravity
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a fascinating timelapse video showing the growth of crystals in microgravity, offering…
Different meteorites may have come from the same strange birthplace near Jupiter
Six families of carbon-rich space rocks have puzzled scientists for years. They look nothing alike. Some crumble at…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Strange Chemistry Beyond Our Solar System
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…
Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures soar into the millions of degrees even though the visible surface below is far cooler — one of the strangest long-running puzzles in solar physics.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun’s corona, the outer…
How China is working to turn Saishiteng Mountain into the world’s largest astronomy base
Construction on the Tibetan plateau of some of the Earth’s most powerful optical telescopes is putting China on…
Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that balanced it out, performed evasive maneuvers,…
What to know about the total solar eclipse in August
Summary A total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal on August 12.…
Tiny X-ray telescope could unlock the Moon’s hidden chemistry
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a small, newly developed X-ray telescope could…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…