TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...
A new study describes Wudingloong wui, an early long-necked dinosaur found in Yunnan, China. It is the oldest known member of its group in East Asia, dating to about 200 million years ago.
Google Project Suncatcher is a new research moonshot to one day scale machine learning in space. Working backward from this potential future, they are ...
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed ...
Scientists who study comets are struggling to keep up with popular speculation that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent ...
The image, reportedly created using spectrum analysis, has not yet been verified but has sparked widespread curiosity about ...
Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...
A rare interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system. It would give astronomers a rare glimpse of ...
The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth's solar system.
Ancient fossils unearthed in Morocco reveal parasitic worms burrowing into mollusc shells approximately 480 million years ago ...
A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...
Scientists have discovered the first physical evidence of pre-impact Earth, hidden in rocks up to 4 billion years old, ...