Space news stories

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists Rishav Roshan from the University of Southampton and Sudipta Show from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur used models and calculations to describe how this “sterile neutrino” could have allowed matter to exist.

It was long assumed to be a product of Vincent van Gogh’s rich imagination – but scientific sleuthing now suggests The Starry Night may be based on a real dawn sky. Researchers say the celestial bodies depicted in the famous painting match the sky the Dutch artist may have seen on about 22 July 1889, a month later than the usual date given for the work.

One of America’s largest meteor craters is around 100 million years younger than scientists thought, which means the ancient impact coincided with — and potentially contributed to — one of the biggest global extinction events in Earth’s history, according to a new study published July 7 in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers discover.

Even after all this time, however, the rover can still roll up to a new way Mars has found to be weird – something that defies easy explanation. This time, it’s holes.

Little is known about what was happening shortly after the Big Bang, but now researchers are hoping to shed fresh light on the matter by harnessing the far side of the moon.

A new celestial map not only catalogs a variety of cosmic objects but also serves as a pointer for other telescopes on Earth and in space.

The findings suggest that the short-acting drug may foster long-term improvements in overall well-being and quality of life for people who do not respond to standard depression treatments. The study was published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Scientists have crunched, and re-crunched, and crunched the numbers again for good measure, and they’re as certain as they can be that Apophis poses no imminent threat to the inhabitants of Earth. But do the inhabitants of Earth pose a threat to Apophis? Well, the answer to that question is a surprising maybe, according to a paper published in The Planetary Science Journal.

Mars once had rivers of magma bubbling beneath its crust, new research suggests. The surprise find makes it more probable that Mars could have supported life and widens the selection of rocky planets that may once have been habitable.

Our Solar System may once have housed an extra world that no longer exists. This long-lost world may have been almost as big as Mars before it suffered a cataclysmic end. This research was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet’s heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASAMagellan spacecraft data from decades past, Anna Gulcher, an earth and planetary scientist at Germany’s University of Freiburg, have created innovative new 3D models of the largest coronae to better understand Venus’ puzzling geodynamics

A new discovery in South Korea suggests that the asteroid effect may have been even more complex than we realized. The research has been published in Communications Earth & Environment.

The Pentagon on Friday released an initial group of previously secret files documenting reports of UFOs – a move sought for decades by some…Among the highlights is Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, telling a 1969 debrief of seeing a “sizeable” object close to the lunar surface, and a “fairly bright light source” the crew felt could be a laser.

A half century after NASA’s Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon’s northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don’t completely understand when or how our Moon first formed.

Astronomers have discovered 27 new potential planets that orbit two stars, like the fictional desert planet Tatooine from the Star Wars universe.