Passing Stars Changed the Orbits of Planets in the Solar System
We're light-years away from the closest stars, but in the billions of years of history in the Milky Way, our…
Saturn’s “Death Star Moon” Mimas Probably has an Ocean Too
A recent study published in Nature presents a groundbreaking discovery that Saturn’s moon, Mimas, commonly known as the “Death Star”…
Dying Stars Could Have Completely New Habitable Zones
Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the…
Venus “Quasi-moon” Just Got a Name. Henceforth, it Shall be Called Zoozve.
Ask any astronomer, and they will tell you that all of the planets in the Solar System (including those "dwarf…
Black Holes Existed at the Dawn of Time, Birthing Stars and Encouraging Galaxy Formation
The Universe is full of galaxies, many containing supermassive black holes. That sparked a question: which came first—the galaxies or…
Cosmic Dust Could Spread Life from World to World Across the Galaxy
Does life appear independently on different planets in the galaxy? Or does it spread from world to world? Or does…
The SETI Ellipse Tells Us Where to Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Of all the questions that remain unanswered, the question of life in the Universe is surely the one that captures…
One of NASA’s Radio Dishes Can Now Track Space Lasers Too
Beamed communication in space is almost exclusively tracked by one network - NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) is used to…
Next Generation Spacesuit Gets Tested in Weightlessness
Considerable effort goes into the design of space suits and space agencies across the world are always working on improvements…
Water Found on the Surface of an Asteroid
Our Solar System is a collection of objects from planets and moons to comets and asteroids. It's thought there are…