Water has been found in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt for the first time, giving scientists an insight into where…
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Using the SPHERE receiver of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Southern Telescope (VLT), astronomers noticed that the asteroid Hygea,…
Is Earth under the watchful eye of “lurking” extraterrestrial spy probes? One US physicist argues that while it’s a distant…
The hypothetical Planet Nine, assumed to be lurking somewhere in the outskirts of our solar system, may not be a…
Break out the party hats. Astronomers have all but confirmed that the second known interstellar object is currently whizzing through…
The government has been passing laws regarding the protection of the Earth’s most vulnerable places from the ravages of different…
A small chunk of a 3.5 million-year-old comet found nestled securely inside a meteorite could potentially contain the building blocks…
NASA astronomers have found another exoplanet outside the solar system. It’s larger than Earth and is 21 light-years from our…
Building blocks of life can spring into existence spontaneously when icy comets smash into planets, a study has shown. A…
By Rob Waugh Fleets of robotic space probes from alien civilisations could already have arrived in our solar system, a…
The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean’s Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped…
The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean’s Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped…
An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of…
Could our solar system have any places besides Earth where life has developed? And if life has developed elsewhere in…
Have we discovered all the planets in our solar system or could there still be more out there to find…
European astronomers say that just outside our solar system they’ve found a planet that’s the closest you can get to…
By Alton Parrish Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have…
Could our solar system have any places besides Earth where life has developed? And if life has developed elsewhere in…