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PinAre we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery worldIn Spaceon 1 February 20254 min readAsteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of...
PinBennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seededIn Spaceon 29 January 20252 min readA bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British...
PinDwarf planet Ceres may have received organic material from space objectsIn Spaceon 27 January 20255 min readThe organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin....
PinHelioseismology method can measure solar radiative opacity under extreme conditionsIn Spaceon 27 January 20256 min readResearchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme conditions. Their work, published...
PinTESS and JWST unveil disintegrating planetary interiorsIn Spaceon 23 January 20256 min readAt the 2025 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new...
PinExtreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar systemIn Spaceon 21 January 20254 min readAstronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h,...
PinAstronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better boots − here’s whyIn Spaceon 20 January 20252 min readThe U.S.’s return to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead...
PinYoung stars in the Milky Way’s back yard challenge our understanding of how they formIn Spaceon 19 January 20254 min readAstronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb Space...
PinAstrophysicists reveal structure of 74 exocomet belts orbiting nearby starsIn Spaceon 19 January 20254 min readAstrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts around...
PinExoplanets around red dwarfs face extreme space weather, Chandra findsIn Spaceon 18 January 20254 min readPlanets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra...
PinIs the moon a chunk ejected from Earth? Study sheds light on moon formation, origin of water on EarthIn Spaceon 16 January 20253 min readA research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered...
PinLost sulfur in the universe may reside in salt on dust and pebblesIn Spaceon 16 January 20253 min readAn international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ammonium...