The comet is rapidly approaching perigee, its closest point to Earth, which is making it easier to spot in the night sky. The comet, first discovered in March 2022 by astronomers Frank Masci and Bryce Bolin …
Lucy launched in October 2021, beginning the first-ever visit to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. These are thought to be primitive objects from the early days of the solar system that orbit ahead of and behind the giant planet as it makes its way around the …
In the mid-1990s scientists found evidence that Earth’s inner core, a superheated ball of iron slightly smaller than the moon, was spinning at its own pace, just a bit faster than the rest of the planet. Now a study published in Nature Geoscience …
Io, the most volcanically active place in the solar system, is basically a hell world. Hundreds of sulfur volcanoes are erupting on a regular basis, covering the entire moon in hot lava and sulfur deposits. Some scientists, however, are rethinking the …
by University of Michigan · A new model for dark matter. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars.
More orange dots represent light from stars in the background, piercing through the cloud. The starlight helped astronomers determine the diverse range of frozen molecules within the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which is forming dozens of young stars …
The tiny planet orbits so close to the sun that the star’s blazing light simply washes Mercury out of Earth’s sight. The only time we get to see the planet is when it’s at greatest elongation, or its farthest points from the sun — that happens a few times …
From a deer’s elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab’s oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of flashy features used in combat to help secure a mate. A team of researchers announced last week that it …
The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest regions of a cold molecular cloud measured to date has been announced by an international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This result allows astronomers to examine the simple icy …
A cosmological wall is a flattened arrangement of galaxies found surrounding other galaxies, characterized by particularly empty regions called “voids” on either side of it. These voids seem to squash the galaxies together into a pancake-like shape to make …
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