Asteroid Ryugu contained bonus comet particles
On December 5th, 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission successfully returned samples it had collected from the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 162173 Ryugu home.
Since asteroids are basically...
Even early galaxies grew hand-in-hand with their supermassive black holes
Within almost every galaxy there is a supermassive black hole.
This by itself implies some kind of formative connection between the two.
We have also observed...
Six planets found orbiting an extremely young star
The field of exoplanet study continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
As of the penning of this article, 5,572 extrasolar planets have been confirmed...
Water vapor found in the atmosphere of a small exoplanet
A recent study published in The Astrophysucal Journal Letters discusses the detection of water within the atmosphere of GJ 9827 d, which is a...
Perseverance is definitely inside an ancient lake on Mars
The search for life on alien worlds has captivated us for hundreds of years.
In some respect, the search for life has expanded to the...
Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars
Star-shredding black holes are everywhere in the sky if you just know how to look for them. That’s one message from a new study...
There’s less dark matter at the core of the Milky Way
Science really does keep you on your toes.
First there was matter and then there were galaxies.
Then those galaxies had more stuff in the middle...
It’s a fine line between a black hole energy factory and a black hole...
Black holes are powerful gravitational engines.
So you might imagine that there must be a way to extract energy from them given the chance, and...
Is the habitable zone really habitable?
The water that life knows and needs, the water that makes a world habitable, the water that acts as the universal solvent for all...
WASP-69b: The Jupiter-sized planet with a spectacular comet-like tail
Imagine a planet so close to its star that it's literally boiling away into space!
That's the story of WASP-69b, a gigantic planet about the...