Comets and Meteors

NASA brings Crew-11 home early in rare medical evacuation

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission has successfully concluded with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday morning, just off…

1 month ago

10 quintillion hydrogen bombs every second: Webb detects massive galactic eruption

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever…

1 month ago

New moonquake discovery could change NASA’s Moon plans

A recently published study reports that shaking from moonquakes, rather than impacts from meteoroids, was the main force behind the…

3 months ago

NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like…

6 months ago

Ancient solar system crash may explain Bennu and Ryugu’s origin

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they…

6 months ago

A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current…

7 months ago

Martian dust to dream homes: How microbes can build on the red planet

Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings on our neighboring planet over…

8 months ago

Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists

A recent discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the…

2 years ago

Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars

A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these…

2 years ago

Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light

A whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth.…

2 years ago