Astronomers Have Discovered a Surprise Asteroid Orbiting Closer to The Sun Than Venus Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized asteroids that […]
How planetary nebulae get their shapes About 7.5 billion years from now, our sun will have converted most of its hydrogen fuel into helium through fusion, and then burned most of that helium into carbon […]
Infrared eyes on Enceladus: Hints of fresh ice in northern hemisphere Scientists used data gathered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during 13 years of exploring the Saturn system to make detailed images of the icy moon—and […]
The four most promising worlds for alien life in the solar system The Earth’s biosphere contains all the known ingredients necessary for life as we know it. Broadly speaking these are: liquid water, at least […]
Scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker in narrowing the search for life in the cosmos. She has developed […]
Can life survive a star’s death? Webb telescope can reveal the answer When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core—a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a […]