These bizarre features on Mars are caused by carbon dioxide geysers
Though it’s a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we’ll never see on...
The building blocks for life found in Asteroid Bennu samples
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar System...
How hydrogen kept early Mars warm
Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong.
It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and (potentially)...
Massive gas giant planets locked in a gravitational struggle
A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit!
On...
How can Titan maintain its atmosphere
Saturn’s moon Titan is perhaps one of the most fascinating moons in the Solar System.
It’s the second largest of all the moons in our...
How well could earth life survive on exoplanets
Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets.
Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may...
Planet formation favors the metal-rich inner Milky Way
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers have turned their attention to the...
Astronauts are going to check if there are microbes on the outside of the...
On Thursday January 30th, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are doing a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
Among other goals, they’ll be...
Why the first stars couldn’t grow forever
Star formation in the early Universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars.
Called Population 3 stars, these giants were massive, extremely luminous stars,...
Did space rocks deliver organic material to dwarf planet Ceres?
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may have received organic material from space, according to new research.
Scientists believe...