Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Volcanic Rock
Scientists studying ancient rock in South Africa seem to have uncovered evidence of the oldest examples yet of these extraterrestrial organic molecules.
Scientists studying ancient rock in South Africa seem to have uncovered evidence of the oldest examples yet of these extraterrestrial organic molecules.
These buried structures are thought to be the remnants of former ice caps which shrunk and were buried during warm periods.
The U.S. space agency is still in the planning stages, and finding some difficulty in securing funding for its ambitious mission.
Earth’s low orbit is about to become a very busy place.
These results could also explain similar asymmetric features seen on other bodies in the solar system, including Mars.
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting TESS spacecraft has spotted three comets orbiting a star 64 light-years away, according to a new paper.
With surface temperatures rising steadily on the asteroid, the probe is running out of time.
It’s some of the clearest evidence to date of these stars colliding and merging.
This mechanism might keep other icy worlds from freezing over completely.
Just in time for Apollo 11's 50th birthday.
It will take some thinking to understand how MU69 ended up looking the way that it does.
There’s a surprising amount that scientists don’t know about our Moon.
These findings show just how much we have left to learn about our closest cosmic neighbour.
The lion’s share of the funding would come from unallocated money of a financial aid program for low-income students in the US.
The launch is part of Musk's ambitious attempt to bring high-speed, low-latency internet to anyone in the world.
It's like a monologue straight out of a sci-fi movie, except more terrifying.
