An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
Space on MSN10h
'Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?
WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...
Astronomy on MSN13h
Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.
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From gas giants to rocky worlds: Why planets in our solar system differ
The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...
Life-bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later Rather Than Sooner
The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...
Scientific American16h
Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
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Missed Last Planetary Parade? Catch February's Celestial Spectacle – When, Where & How to See It
Missed January's planetary parade? February 2025 offers another celestial spectacle. Discover when, where & how to catch ...
‘Best planet parade in half a century’ visible this week & falls during almighty galaxy season – three tips to see them
STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
NASA sends out warning as three giant asteroids set to just miss Earth
NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just 77,200 miles of our planet-roughly one-third ...