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The Solar System Gets A Second Mercury
Freddie Mercury, the iconic front man from the band Queen, is having an asteroid named after him to commemorate what…
Juno Captures Jupiter’s Enthralling Poles From 2,500 Miles
The first images of Jupiter have arrived from the Juno spacecraft and they are a tantalizing taste of what's to…
Newly Found Ancient Fossils Show Possibilities For Finding Martian Life
Fossils discovered in Greenland - which are 3.7 billion years old - are the oldest evidence of life on Earth…
Grab Your Smartphone And Become A Citizen Scientist For NASA
NASA's new GLOBE Observer app allows users to observe the sky in their location and share the data with NASA.
On The Origin Of Phobos’ Groovy Mystery
A new study offers a possible explanation for the strange surface features on Mars' moon of Phobos, which could help…
Sentinel-1A Satellite Takes A Direct Hit From Millimetre Size Particle
After reviewing data from the Sentinel-1A satellites on-board cameras, the ESA has determined that it suffered a collision with a…
6 Million Years Ago The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Raged
Astrophysicists looking for the Milky Way's missing matter have found that our black hole was very active only 6 million…
Planet 9 Search Turning Up Wealth Of New Objects
In 2014, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University proposed an interesting…
Dark Matter: Hot Or Not?
Relying on Hubble data, a new study has suggested that (contrary to hot and cold models) dark matter may actually…
Who Else Is Looking For Cool Worlds Around Proxima Centauri?
Outside of the ESO, there are others who have been hunting for exoplanets around Proxima Centauri - including Dr. Kipping…