Here’s How the Universe Can Make Dimethyl Sulfide in Interstellar Space. No Life Required.

K2-18b is an exoplanet located about 120 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo. It orbits…

Prebiotic Molecules are Forming in Space

We associate complex chemistry with planets or other bodies, where energy and matter interact in dynamic…

World’s Largest Solar Telescope Gets the World’s Largest Spectro-Polarimeter

By Andy Tomaswick April 24, 2025 Telescopes can have more than one sensor. Those sensors can…

We Need a Rapid Asteroid Response Mission

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are rocky bodies orbiting our Solar System that pass relatively close to Earth’s…

Half the Stellar Mass in the Universe Formed During Cosmic Noon

About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the first atoms formed. The first light of what…

What Perseverance’s latest findings tell us about the Red Planet’s past

A recent publication in Science Advances, featuring contributions from Mariek E. Schmidt from Brock University and…

Catch a Rare Lunar-Planetary Grouping Friday Morning

Early risers on April 25th might see a rare quadruple bunching of the Moon and planets…

The World’s Largest Telescope is Coming Together

The telescope was invented in the Netherlands around 1608, when Hans Lippershey, a German-Dutch spectacle maker,…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures images of asteroid Donaldjohanson during flyby

On April 20, 2025, at 13:51 EDT (17:51 UTC), NASA’s Lucy spacecraft conducted a flyby of…

A Novel Concept for a Multiplanetary Crewed Mission to Mars and Ceres

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two…