A Passing Star Could Fling Earth Out of Orbit Faster Than Anyone Previously Predicted
In the vast calm of the solar system, planetary orbits often appear orderly, stable, and insulated from the…
New Scottish Dark Sky Observatory plans submitted
Giancarlo RinaldiSouth Scotland reporter Marc Charron A lengthy search was undertaken to find a site to replace the…
NASA continues to work toward February launch of Artemis 2
PHOENIX — NASA says it is continuing to prepare for a possible Artemis 2 launch as soon as…
ESA – Snow-covered Amsterdam
As many people across Europe returned to work and school this week following the festive season, a sharp…
Hundreds of Nearby Stars Flagged as Prime Candidates to Support Life : ScienceAlert
One of the critical aspects of exoplanet habitability is the long-term stability of the stars they orbit. Some…
NASA’s 25-Year Timelapse Shows How a Supernova Remnant Grows
A new NASA timelapse was two and a half decades in the making. What makes the timelapse of…
A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
Transit observations and analysis We analysed a heterogeneous dataset of light curves from space- and ground-based telescopes (Supplementary…
Mars rover finds an iron-rich rock that may be an ancient meteorite
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a desk-sized rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, on Mars that looks suspiciously like an iron-rich…
Astronomers discover the earliest, hottest galaxy cluster in the universe, and it breaks all the rules
A seemingly impossible cluster of more than 30 galaxies crammed into a volume just 500,000 light-years across has…
Earth’s tail has been helping Moon steal from our planet for billions of years
When scientists studied lunar soil that was brought back in the 1970s, NASA found traces of volatiles, substances…
Astrophotographer captures rare footage of the Hubble Telescope crossing the sun (video)
The Hubble Space Telescope appears as a small black dot zipping across the surface of the sun. (Image…
A crew member’s “medical concern” foils a planned spacewalk outside the ISS
A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station has been postponed due to a “medical concern” with one…