Fragments of asteroid 2024 BX1 identified as extremely rare Aubrite meteorites

Initial investigations of meteorites from the strewn field of asteroid 2024 BX1, which entered the Earth’s…

NASA Wants to Put a Massive Telescope on the Moon

As part of the Artemis Program, NASA intends to establish all the necessary infrastructure to create…

Simulation Perfectly Matches What We See When Neutron Stars Collide

There are many mysteries in the world of astronomy and a fair number relate to the…

ESA’s Tiny Pinhole Thruster is Ready for Production. 

Rocket propulsion technology has progressed leaps and bounds since the first weaponised rockets of the Chinese…

How a Small Town in Japan Fiercely Defends its Dark Skies

Light pollution ruins dark skies. It’s a scourge that ground-based observatories have to deal with in…

How Many Planets Could Be in the Kuiper Belt?

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters investigates the potential existence of Mars-sized free-floating…

TRAPPIST-1c Isn’t the Exo-Venus We Were Hoping For. But Don’t Blame the Star

A recent study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal uses computer models to investigate why the exoplanet,…

Organic Molecules Come from the Universe’s Cold Places

Life, as we all know, is based on chemistry. Prebiotic chemical building blocks existed on our…

NASA Tests Out 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine!

Looking to the future, NASA is investigating several technologies that will allow it to accomplish some…

The Early Universe Was Surprisingly Filled With Spiral Galaxies

If we could travel far beyond our galaxy, and look back upon the Milky Way, it…