Neptune Has a Weird Tilt and Its Moon Might Be to Blame for It
Neptune. Image credits: NASA. Most planets in our solar system are tilted. Earth’s 23-degree tilt gives us our…
Earth’s Building Blocks Came from Close to Home, Planetary Scientists Say
A new analysis of isotopic signatures across planets and meteorite parent bodies suggests our home world formed entirely…
Webb and Hubble Telescopes Capture Saturn in Unprecedented Detail
By combining infrared observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
Astronomers have spotted two giant gas plants forming around a baby star in deep space
Astronomers have caught something extraordinary happening in deep space – new planets being born, right now. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…
How Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Met Unlikely Observer
On its way to Jupiter, ESA’s Juice spacecraft briefly turned its gaze toward a rare interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS,…
DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news
Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off…
Hubble Captures Breakup of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)
The breakup of C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, opens a window into how…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Asteroid Reveals The 5 Key Genetic Ingredients For Life on Earth
A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up…
Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star
A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out.…
3I/ATLAS is Unusually Rich in Methanol, ALMA Observations Show
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected hydrogen cyanide (nitrogen-bearing organic molecule commonly seen in…