Although Jupiter itself cannot endure life as we know it, its moons are believed to contain enormous amounts of water, a necessary condition for life....
Comet 46P / Wirtanen released unusually high amounts of alcohol during its passage through Earth 2.5 years ago. Scientists have discovered extremely high amounts of...
During the study of the Nu2 Lupi star system with two mysterious planets in orbit, scientists discovered a ghost flying past the star. The discovery...
NASA’s Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will deploy an apartment-sized sail from a microsatellite to Earth orbit by mid-2022. Sail technology has been used in...
Although many projects to track Earth-passing asteroids have been disrupted by the pandemic, astronomers detected nearly 3,000 near-Earth asteroids last year – a record number...
Astronomers have detected the largest known explosion in the universe since the Big Bang. This explosion originated from a supermassive black hole located in the...