Our Galaxy swallowed another galaxy shortly after the Big Bang. And scientists just found the smoking gun
Our home Galaxy the Milky Way wasn’t always been a majestic spiral galaxy containing of hundreds of billions…
New Solar System Models Show Earth Is No Fluke
Over the last three decades, computer models of forming planetary systems have gone from being fairly crude replications…
Astronomers found a ‘mega Earth’ that shouldn’t exist. This alien world is breaking the rules of planet building
When astronomers peer into space to observe planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System – known as exoplanets…
Astronomers announced in January 2026 that they had found a 710-metre asteroid — nearly eight football fields across — spinning once every 1.88 minutes. A normal rubble-pile asteroid should tear itself apart at anything close to that speed, meaning 2025 MN45 must have internal strength comparable to solid rock.
Somewhere in the main asteroid belt, a body estimated to be 710 metres wide completes a full turn…
Mars’s Funky Moon Deimos was Shaped by an Impact
Both of Mars’ moons are oddballs. They’re small and lumpy like potatoes, and for a long time, astronomers…
Mars may hold enough liquid water to cover the entire planet to a depth of 1 to 2 kilometres — trapped in tiny cracks and pores in rock roughly 11.5 to 20 kilometres underground, far beyond anything we’ve ever been capable of drilling on Mars.
Mars may be hiding a tremendous amount of liquid water, but almost certainly not as a buried sea.…
Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find
Microbes from Earth might survive the harsh surface of the moon, albeit in a state of suspended animation,…
SmallSat 2026 – NASA Science
SmallSat 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth # 635, 835, 641, and 940) for Storytelling by…
China’s Chang’e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history
China’s moon exploration program is readying an ambitious robotic mission, one composed of an orbiter, a lander, a…
Space mystery leads scientists to discovery of ‘black hole stars’
Astronomers identify new type of ‘black hole star’ in universe while hunting space mystery A black hole star…
China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done
How do you explore a place where the Sun never shines? China’s space programme will soon embark on…
SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch ‘in a few months,’ Elon Musk says
We’ll have to wait a bit longer for a highly anticipated Starship milestone, it appears. On Aug. 4,…