NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...
Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...
Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...
A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...
The orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been forever changed by an enormous object that whizzed through ...
The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...