If there is extraterrestrial life on K2-18b, or anywhere else, its discovery will arrive at a frustratingly slow pace. “Unless we see E.T. waving at us, it’s not going to be a smoking gun,” said Christopher
As a result of the team’s discovery, the Centaur has recently been reclassified as a comet, and will be known as “C/2014 OG392 (PANSTARRS).” “I’m very excited that the Minor Planet Center awarded a new comet designation befitting the activity we discovered on this unusual object,...
The search for life beyond Earth has largely revolved around our rocky red neighbor.NASAhas launched multiple rovers over the years, with anew one currently en route, to sift throughMars’ dusty surface for signs of water and other hints of habitability. Now, in a surprising twist, scientists...
astronomers have now detected a large amount of hydrogen, reports Michelle Starr forScience Alert. The discovery, published in the journalIcarus,may allow future astronauts to access water on Mars easily.
This week, a mechanical geologist the size of a golf cart and nearly 156 million miles away galvanized the world with news that Mars bears unequivocal evidence of once-watery conditions capable of supporting life as we know it.Yet for all the excitement surrounding the discovery, the value of...
Astronomers can't agree on what this cosmic oddity isHow scientists make sense of a streak of light in the cosmos.By Elisha Sauers on May 13, 2023 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Astronomers thought they found a runaway black hole, an unprecedented discovery. But ...
The Oldest Material in the Smithsonian Institution Came From Outer Space January 3, 2019 Meteorites May Have Brought Water to Earth and Mars November 18, 2022 Astronomers Detect the Smallest Main Belt Asteroids Ever Found by Repurposing a Technique for Exopla...
The discovery of the precession rate of the warp is described in a paper published on June 27 in Nature Astronomy. Originally posted on Space.com. TOPICS Milky Way European Space Agency Keith Cooper Astrobiology Magazine More about astronomy NASA Mars satellite uncovers markings 'like paint drippi...
One surprising aspect of this new research is the discovery that many repeating FRBs are surprisingly inactive, producing under one burst per week during CHIME's observing time. Pleunis believes that this could be because these FRBS haven't yet been observed long enough for a second burst to...
Magellan was murderous and awful but that isn’t the primary issue," David W. Hogg, a professor of physics and data science at New York University and Group Leader for astronomical data at the Flatiron Institute, told Space.com. "The primary issue is that the clouds aren’t his discovery...