In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date,…
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Bright fireball over Australia’s east coast
A bright fireball was reported by hundreds of people over Australia’s east coast on the morning…
Most Mars Meteorites Came From Five Craters
Meteorites strike Earth every day. It’s estimated that about 100 – 300 metric tonnes of material…
NASA Reveals the Mind-Boggling Scale of Hurricane Milton seen from Space
We often talk about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot quite candidly but forget that hurricanes can be…
A New Way to Detect Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres
The total number of exoplanets discovered to date totals 5,288. Among them are a host of…
How Did Mars Become Uninhabitable?
Mars has captured our imagination for centuries. Ever since the invention of the telescope our imagination…
Good News. Comet Encke Only Threw a Handful of Giant Space Rocks in our Direction
As comets travel along their orbit they dump material along the way. A stream of debris…
NASA Announces a New Class of Space Missions: Probe Explorers
NASA has sent a whole host of spacecraft across the Solar System and even beyond. They…
The Open Star Cluster Westerlund 1, Seen by Webb
A long time ago, the Milky Way Galaxy was busy being a prodigious star-formation engine. In…
TESS Finds a Triple Star System that Could Fit within Mercury’s Orbit
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been on the lookout for alien worlds since 2018.…