NASA’s TESS finds almost 100 quadruple star systems
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018.
TESS...
How NASA plans to destroy International Space Station
Nasa has announced plans for the International Space Station (ISS) to be officially decommissioned in 2031.
After dozens of launches since 1998 got the station...
Lasers could send missions to Mars in only 45 days
NASA and China plan to mount crewed missions to Mars in the next decade.
While this represents a tremendous leap in terms of space exploration,...
Psyche, the iron giant of asteroids, may be less heavy metal, more hard rock
The asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA intends to visit with a spacecraft in 2026, may be less heavy metal and more hard rock than...
What if a planet has a mind of its own?
The collective activity of life—all of the microbes, plants, and animals—have changed planet Earth.
Take, for example, plants: plants ‘invented’ a way of undergoing photosynthesis...
Scientists detect a supermassive black hole hiding in a ring of cosmic dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the centre of the galaxy Messier 77 that...
Where did the water on Earth come from
Earth's supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from?
Was it present when Earth...
Scientists find new type of star covered in helium burning ashes
Astronomers led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of...
Scientists find surprisingly more dead galaxies in ancient galactic city
Astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered an unusual massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the early universe.
The...
Astronomers detect rare flyby of object in stellar nursery
Scientists have detected a rare stellar "flyby" near the protoplanetary disk around Z Canis Majoris, or Z CMa, a star in the Canis Major...