Ancient Mars Meteorite From the Sahara Is Over 4 Billion Years Old
In 2022, meteorite hunters discovered scattered fragments of an unusual rock in the Sahara Desert in northern Mali.…
Study claims long-held theory of origin of life on earth could be completely wrong
A century-old theory that comets brought the building blocks of life to Earth may be completely wrong, according…
Farthest human-made object in space loses contact from Earth
NASA briefly lost contact with Voyager 1 in mid-October after the nearly 50-year-old spacecraft stopped transmitting a detectable…
Meteorite Found in Sahara is Piece of Mars at Least 4.1 Billion Years Old
Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in Mali four years ago, is a fragment of…
UM launches campaign to fund planetarium’s ‘out-of-this-world’ experience
MISSOULA — The University of Montana’s planetarium has been up and running since 2014, but projector problems require…
The Sun’s Death Could Tear Apart the Outer Solar System Much Sooner Than Thought
Our Sun is just like any other star. That is, eventually the Sun will run out of fuel…
Reseachers detect radio signal from planet beyond Solar System
A team of astrophysicists have detected a radio signal coming from a planet beyond the solar system for…
Cassini Reveals Surprising Diversity in Salt Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
A new analysis of nearly 1,000 ice grain measurements from Saturn’s E ring shows that Enceladus’ salty ocean…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
People think Earth dies when the Sun becomes a red giant in five billion years — the more likely end is a billion years from now, when a star already 30 percent brighter than at birth pushes CO₂ too low for C3 plants, then a moist greenhouse strips the oceans of hydrogen and leaves a sterile Venus
The Sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old and about halfway through its main-sequence lifetime. The popular conception…
Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
Closest planet to our sun is shrinking. Here’s what that means
The closest planet to our sun is shrinking. Here’s what that means Telltale wrinkles that cover Mercury, the…