A planned NASA mission to test its capability to defend Earth from an incoming asteroid could cause the planet’s first-ever artificial meteor shower, a study found earlier this year.
Researchers are “reading the rocks” and the history they show on Mars to paint a picture of when the planet supported liquid water on its surface billions of years ago.
A red giant star strayed too close to a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 250 million light-years away.
Two bright nebulas in a galaxy 163,000 light-years away are very pregnant with stars.
We don’t get all that many visitors in our quiet corner of the galaxy. In fact the comet 2I/Borisov is only the second interstellar visitor we’ve welcomed to our solar system, following ‘Oumuamua in 2017.
A newly funded concept envisions a kilometer-wide radio telescope built inside a crater on the far side of the Moon. Whoa.
The sharpest-ever photos of the sun, captured by NASA’s High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Hi-C, have revealed the fine magnetic threads of super heated plasma that make up the sun’s outer layer.
‘This would contradict one of the most basic underlying assumptions we use in cosmology today’
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface.
Newly-discovered black hole could be the long hoped-for ‘missing link’
