Hubble Solves Mystery of Monster Star’s Dimming – Red Hypergiant Is As Bright as 300,000 Suns The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris is enshrouded in huge clouds of dust Stars come in an extraordinary range […]
Astronomers Have Found The First Evidence For Tectonic Activity on an Exoplanet. You may not be all that familiar with planet LHS 3844b, but it now has its own particular distinction: It’s the first planet outside […]
New Rocky Super-Earth Planet Could Host Alien Life A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet with a surface temperature slightly cooler than Venus may have an atmosphere able to host alien life, according to a new study. Astronomers from […]
Scientists Find Water and Organic Matter on An Asteroid For The First Time Scientists discovered the presence of water and organic matter in a tiny sample from the asteroid ‘Itowaka,’ which was visited by the […]
Two Different Supernovas Delivered The Material That Makes Up The Solar System About the same time the Sun formed, at least two supernovas exploded in our near neighborhood, new research suggests. The event seeded the […]
Lumpy, 30-pound meteorite that crashed in Sweden recovered in local village It was part of a space rock that created a dramatic fireball over Uppsala. A half-melted hunk of iron-rich rock found in Uppsala, Sweden, […]