Space news stories

Meteorites that helped form earth may have formed in the outer solar system
14th March 2022 | eurekalert.org | Ancient, Earth, Space

Evidence suggests surface minerals of outer main-belt asteroids, proposed to have sourced building blocks of Earth’s water and life, are only stable at low temperatures. These asteroids formed in distant orbits and may help explain Earth’s composition

Gemstone rain on a tidally-locked ‘hot Jupiter’?
21st February 2022 cosmosmagazine.com | Space, Weird

Some planets, like ours, rotate as they spin around their stars – an endless turning of day into night into day again. But other planets behave differently; tidally-locked to their stars, one side continually faces the sun, while the other is shrouded in perpetual darkness.

The Biggest Galaxy Ever Found Has Just Been Discovered, And It Will Break Your Brain
17th February 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Space

Astronomers have just found an absolute monster of a galaxy. Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That’s 16.3 million light-years long, and constitutes the largest known structure of galactic origin.

Early findings from HERA telescope promise deeper understanding of the cosmic dawn
14th February 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Space, Tech

All through history, humans have created and shared stories that ponder the creation of stars—what they are and how the first stars came to be.

Life could exist on planet orbiting ‘white dwarf’ star
11th February 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Animal Life, Humans, Space

Researchers believe there may be a planet that could sustain life, in the vicinity of a dying sun.

 

Supercomputers Simulated a Black Hole And Found Something We’ve Never Seen Before
10th February 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space, Tech

While black holes might always be black, they do occasionally emit some intense bursts of light from just outside their event horizon. Previously, what exactly caused these flares had been a mystery to science

Asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit discovered. Could it help future space missions?
7th February 2022 phys.org | Earth, Humans, Space

Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometer across in its orbit about the Sun—only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes round the Sun on average two months ahead of the Earth, dancing around in front like an excited herald of our coming.

Australia scientists find ‘spooky’ spinning object in Milky Way
31st January 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Space, Tech

Australian scientists say they have discovered an unknown spinning object in the Milky Way that they claim is unlike anything seen before.

‘Don’t Look Up’: humanity could avert asteroid Armageddon, say scientists
28th January 2022 | theguardian.com | Humans, Space

Planet likely to be spared from catastrophic end if 10km-wide Earthbound asteroid was spotted, analysis finds

Jaw-Dropping View of The Milky Way Reveals Mysterious Structures Dangling in Space
28th January 2022 | sciencealert.com | Space, Weird

A new image of the heart of the Milky Way is revealing mysterious structures we’ve never seen before.

Mars ‘asteroid showers’ have stayed steady over 600 million years
26th January 2022 | space.com | Ancient, Space

Fresh analysis of craters on Mars suggests that asteroids have been smashing into the surface at a consistent rate for at least 600 million years.

Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon could have a secret underground ocean
24th January 2022 | livescience.com | Humans, Space

Scientists have found “compelling evidence” that Saturn’s “Death Star” moon is hiding an ocean just beneath its surface, furthering the search for possible life in our solar system.

Astronomers Have Detected a Mysterious, Dusty Object Erratically Dimming Its Star
6th January 2022 | sciencealert.com | Space, Weird

There are a lot of unexplained objects out there in the Universe, and astronomers have just found another one – a strange, dusty object that may be causing its host star to dim by up to 75 percent.

‘Cosmic monster’ star spits energy with the force of a billion suns
3rd January 2022 | livescience.com | Space

A dense, magnetic star violently erupted and spat out as much energy as a billion suns — and it happened in a fraction of a second, scientists recently reported.

The Red Sky Paradox Will Make You Question Our Very Place in The Universe
29th December 2021 | sciencealert.com | Space, Weird

On the grand cosmic scale, our little corner of the Universe isn’t all that special – this idea lies at the heart of the Copernican principle. Yet there’s one major aspect about our planet that’s peculiar indeed: Our Sun is a yellow dwarf.

This asteroid sample could reveal our solar system’s origin story
22nd December 2021 edition.cnn.com | Ancient, Humans, Space

Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from the formation of our solar system.

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