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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...
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...
Since interstellar objects crashed into Earth in the past, could they have brought life
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey detected an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System for the first time.
The object,...
The meteorites that made earth were filled with water
According to the most widely accepted scientific theory, our Solar System formed from a nebula of dust and gas roughly 4.56 billion years ago...
After all of this time searching for aliens, is it the zoo hypothesis or...
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question that launched a...
NASA tightbeams a cat video from 31 million kilometers away
NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) has been responsible for maintaining contact with missions venturing beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) since 1963.
In addition to relaying...
Voyager 1 has another problem with its computer system
For more than 46 years, the Voyager 1 probe has been traveling through space.
On August 25th, 2012, it became the first spacecraft to cross...
If our part of the universe is less dense, would that explain the Hubble...
In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre made a startling discovery that forever changed our perception of the Universe.
Upon observing galaxies beyond the...
Communicating with a relativistic spacecraft gets pretty weird
Someday, in the not-too-distant future, humans may send robotic probes to explore nearby star systems.
These robot explorers will likely take the form of lightsails...
Europa clipper could help discover if Jupiter’s moon is habitable
Since 1979, when the Voyager probes flew past Jupiter and its system of moons, scientists have speculated about the possibility of life within Europa.
Based...