A highly anticipated trip to Venus is in jeopardy due to NASA’s withdrawal of all funding, save for a minuscule amount intended to keep the planetary orbiter on fragile life…
In 2017, the first object is known to have visited Earth’s solar system from deep space raced. One top scientist thought it was an extraterrestrial spaceship. Researchers declared Wednesday that…
Australia has uncovered 3,48 billion-year-old shards of rock that may be the oldest indication of a meteorite impacting Earth. The shards, known as spherules, may have formed when the meteor…
On Earth, furiously whirling air columns or tornadoes are terrifying enough. Imagine, though, a comparable event comprised of lethal plasma vortices controlled by the Sun’s magnetic fields – that sounds…
The Very Large Telescope identified no water on the asteroid using spectroscopy. Six months after NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, experts are starting to understand the mission’s goal.…
Our galaxy continues to produce stars. We’ve known this for some time, but sometimes it’s difficult to grasp the actual magnitude in astronomical terms. A Japanese team is attempting to…
Abhilash Ramachandran, a planetary scientist, announced at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on March 13 that Mars soil may have all the required ingredients for producing rice, one of…
The dominant theory for the birth of the moon argues that a planet around the size of Mars, named Theia, collided with the young Earth, ejecting a cloud of debris…
Life on Earth did not spontaneously arise. While the planet supplied the necessary circumstances for life, the basic components for life originated from outer space. Examination of materials from the…
The Chandra X-ray Observatory at NASA has found two pairs of supermassive black holes on collision trajectories in dwarf galaxies. This is the first indication of such an imminent collision.…