Tiny Fragments of a 4-Billion Year Old Asteroid Reveal Its History

In June 2018, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for…

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope receives advanced coronagraph for exoplanet and dark matter research mission

NASA engineers have successfully integrated the state-of-the-art Roman Coronagraph Instrument with the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Astronomers Have Found the Fastest Spinning Neutron Star

Neutron stars are as dense as the nucleus of an atom. They contain a star’s worth…

Tiangong space station welcomes Shenzhou 19 for six-month crewed mission

The Shenzhou 19 mission, carrying three crew members to China’s Tiangong space station, launched from the…

Bright fireball illuminates skies over Wellington, New Zealand

A bright fireball was observed over the skies of New Zealand on Sunday, October 27, 2024,…

Astronomers Discover Potential New Building Block of Organic Matter in Interstellar Space

Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of…

There’s Another Ocean Moon Candidate: Uranus’ Tiny Moon Miranda

The Solar System’s hundreds of moons are like puzzle pieces. Together, they make a picture of…

Titan May Have a Methane Crust 10 Km Thick

Saturn’s moon, Titan, is an anomaly among moons. No other moons have surface liquids, and aside…

Asteroid 2023 UZ6 flew past Earth at just 0.04 LD

This is the 101st asteroid to fly past Earth within 1 lunar distance (<1 LD) since…

Death of a Comet: S1 Didn’t Survive its Sungrazing Plummet

Sungrazer C/2024 S1 ATLAS broke apart at perihelion. Alas, a ‘Great Halloween Comet’ was not to…