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Asteroid impacts may have shaped early Earth into a network of hydrothermal systems that supported life’s beginnings.
New study shows asteroid impacts may have created hydrothermal systems that helped life begin on Earth.
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Lucy found asteroid Donaldjohanson wobbling, scarred by impacts and rich in water-altered minerals from an ancient breakup.
SpaceNASA’s Lucy spacecraft finds asteroid Donaldjohanson is tumbling through spaceShy Cohen
DF9 appears to lack dark matter, joining two other galaxies in a rare linear trail that may have formed in a violent collision.
SpaceAstronomers discover faint dwarf galaxy that seems to exist without dark matterJoseph Shavit
This technology revolutionizes the way satellites are sent into space, using a giant rotating arm to fling satellites into low Earth orbit.
SpaceSpinLaunch looks to slingshot satellites into spaceJoshua Shavit
New models suggest Earth may avoid being swallowed by the dying sun, though its fate still depends on uncertain stellar mass loss.
SpaceEarth may not be swallowed by our dying sun after all, study findsJoseph Shavit
Imperial physicists showed a prototype quantum sensor can cancel noise and recover hidden signals.
SpaceNew prototype quantum sensor expedites search for dark matter and gravitational wavesJoshua Shavit
Molecules eyed as Mars biosignatures in a famous meteorite appear to come from petroleum pollution, refining the search for ancient life.
SpaceNew analysis finds signs of life on Mars actually came from EarthJoseph Shavit
An artist’s conception of a star engulfing a planet. The blue lines traces the path of the planet as it spirals toward the star and ultimately collides with it (the planet is partially as it crashes into the left-hand side of the star).
SpaceDistant star TOI-5882 appears to have swallowed a planetJoshua Shavit
Discovered in 2013, the Pink Planet orbits a sun-like star located 57 light-years from Earth. At roughly 25 times the mass of Jupiter, it sits near the fuzzy boundary between giant planets and brown dwarfs.
SpaceJWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink PlanetShy Cohen
Numerical relativity may let scientists test early-universe ideas once considered beyond the reach of physics.
SpaceScientists use Einstein’s equations to reveal what came before the Big BangJoseph Shavit
A conceptual figure of this study. The background diagram represents the history of the Universe stretching from the Big Bang on the left and the modern Universe on the right. ALMA captured the starburst galaxy “Shadow Blaster” in the same direction as the high-energy neutrino event IC 210922A.
SpaceShadow Blaster points to starburst galaxies as hidden sources of cosmic neutrinosJoshua Shavit
An image of the excess gamma rays appearing at the center of our Milky Way, overlaid on an optical image of the galaxy. The cause of this excess, and whether it could come from dark matter, has been debated for more than a decade.
SpaceA strange glow in the heart of the Milky Way may be dark matterJoseph Shavit
A colossal mass buried beneath the Moon’s far side may be the remains of an ancient impactor
SpaceMassive underground structure discovered beneath the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basinJoshua Shavit
A1689-zD1, a galaxy seen 700 million years after the Big Bang (background), with the ALMA-detected [O I] line shown as contours and a spectrum. This is one of four galaxies studied in this paper.
SpaceAstronomers detect first direct evidence of star-forming gas in early galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Physicists tracked dark points inside light in real time and found many appeared to move faster than light without breaking relativity.
SpaceDarkness can travel faster than the speed of light — without breaking Einstein’s relativityJoshua Shavit
New Moon impact models suggest South Pole-Aitken ejecta may place deep mantle material near Artemis south pole landing zones.
SpaceNew discovery reveals how the Moon’s largest and oldest crater formedJoseph Shavit
This portion of the universe generated from dark matter halos in the Uchuu simulation shows the distribution of galaxies and quasars up to billions of light-years away.
SpaceNew ‘cosmic GPS’ produces the most accurate map of dark matter in the universeJoseph Shavit