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Newly discovered Moon metals make scientists rethink its origin story
How was the Moon formed? The most-widely-accepted theory suggests that billions of years ago, our young planet was ...
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These are the 3 most likely scenarios for our first alien encounter
How we will find extraterrestrial life is just as important of a question as to when we will find the first alien life. Finding ...
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We won't reach other solar systems for a while — robots could visit them first
Many great movies and television shows, including the Lost in Space reboot, show various versions of interstellar ...
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A mysterious planet may be hiding at the edge of our solar system
A mysterious planet — called Planet 9 or Planet X — may be hiding at the edge of our solar system. Will we ever find this world? Planet nine may be orbiting far from the Sun, at the edge of our solar system. Astronomers, seeing odd irregularities in the orbits of the outer ...
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Super-puff worlds: These Jupiter-sized planets are light as cotton candy
Astronomers once believed that most solar systems would be much like our own, with small rocky planets near their sun, accompanied by gas giants orbiting the star at greater distances. Beginning in 1992, researchers began to find worlds orbiting alien stars, and soon found solar systems ...
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The story of Ed Dwight: the man who nearly became the first African-American to reach space
Ed Dwight may not be remembered by many space aficionados, but he very nearly became a household name, spoken in the same breath with John Glenn and Yuri Gagarin. In the early 1960’s, Dwight nearly became the first African-American to reach space. Born in Kansas City, Kansas ...
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The oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa may be habitable, according to NASA
A new study of the oceans of Europa suggest oceans on that giant moon may be habitable. But is there life? The oceans of Europa may be habitable, according to a new model developed by NASA. This moon — 3,100 km (1,900 miles) in diameter — is the fourth-largest moon orbiting ...
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Oceans on alien worlds are more common than you think, study reveals
Oceans on exoplanets may be more common than commonly believed, a new NASA study reveals. A new generation of telescopes, both on the ground and in space, capable of finding these oceans will begin operations in the next few years, potentially confirming the finding. In our ...
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A mysterious space signal has been going for over 500 days — and no one knows why
A source of repeating radio waves seen from one point in the sky presents astronomers with numerous mysteries. The ...
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AI could help astronomers unravel the mystery of dark matter
Everything we see in the Universe around us — stars, planets, galaxies, and more — totals less than five percent ...
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New observations suggest the Universe might be expanding at a higher rate than we thought
Understanding the Hubble constant, the rate at which the Universe expands, is one of the crucial figures astrophysics ...
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These planets might host alien life, but we’d never know because they’re too dusty to see anything
Dusty worlds like the desert planet Arrakis from Dune may be common throughout the galaxy. Some of these worlds, ...
