To look for life out there, it helps to know how it started here. One of the…
Huge gamma-ray burst collection ‘rivals 250-year-old Messier catalog,’ say astronomers
Gamma-ray bursts (like the one depicted in this artist’s impression) are the most violent explosions in…
Complex chemicals found on Enceladus improve prospects for life
The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could…
New insights into asteroid properties: A STEP…
One of the first recipients of The Planetary Society’s STEP (Science and Technology Empowered by the…
Earth to have new mini-moon for two months
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad…
Weak gravitational lensing: how Euclid maps dark matter
ESA’s Euclid mission is surveying the sky to explore the composition and evolution of the dark…
Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles
Early dark energy could have triggered the formation of numerous bright galaxies, very early in the…
Week in images: 09-13 September 2024
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BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby: the movie
Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury…
Black hole duo will merge in a distant galaxy
Artist’s concept of 2 active supermassive black holes at the heart of 2 merging galaxies. Each…