Asteroid Trailing Mars May Be Our Moon’s Long-Lost Twin
An international team of planetary scientists led by astronomers at AOP have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars with a composition very similar to the…
An international team of planetary scientists led by astronomers at AOP have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars with a composition very similar to the…
Close proximity of high energy pulse suggests magnetars may be at the origin of some fast radio bursts. New data from a Canadian-led team of…
When the Universe was only a tenth of its current age its galaxies experienced a growth spurt. It was this period that the scientists in…
‘Rocky’ weather could change the surface and atmosphere over time on exoplanet K2-141b. Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar…
This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided. This cloud produces a kilonova; that is…
In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet’s…
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is…
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails…
Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, most powerful, and complex space telescope ever built to uncover galaxies never before…
Scientists at CU Boulder are developing a satellite about the size of a toaster oven to explore one of the cosmos’ most fundamental mysteries: How…
This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, nestled in the belly of The Whale, bears an uneasy resemblance to a skull floating through space….
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an international team of astronomers who studied…
International team including University of Warwick astronomers discovers a new class of planet, the Ultra Hot Neptune The planet was found in the Neptunian Desert,…
The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into asteroids’ resurfacing processes. Professor ARAKAWA…
Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced the…
What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? The answer is…
In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team of researchers, including planetary scientist and cosmochemist James Lyons of Arizona…
Are we alone in the universe? It is one of the most profound questions posed in modern astronomy. But although our understanding of the cosmos…