Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS might be seeding life across the universe, proposing ...
A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has uncovered fresh clues about the extreme ...
Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The ...
Somewhere in the southern sky, light that left a small galaxy roughly 13 billion years ago finally landed on the detectors of ...
With 263 antennas spread across the U.S. and Mexico, the Next Generation Very Large Array, would join a new wave of radio ...
In a stunning stroke of luck, Hubble witnessed a comet splitting apart almost in real time. The rare observation is giving ...
Last fall, a Chinese spacecraft orbiting Mars captured images of a comet from another star system, offering scientists a ...
Stardust from ancient supernova explosions has been discovered in Antarctic ice, offering clues about the Solar System’s path ...
Earth is flying through the radioactive ashes of an ancient exploded star, and Antarctic ice preserved the evidence.
Cosmic dust from shooting stars, not Venus itself, is responsible for a puzzling haze layer beneath the planet’s sulfuric acid clouds, new research reveals. At AQN, we like the odd, distracting flight ...
At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny slice of outer space and used it to make cosmic dust from scratch. Linda Losurdo, a doctoral researcher in materials and plasma ...