1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (381+ words) Around 4.6 billion years ago, an immense cloud of gas and dust in space collapsed in on itself. As it collapsed, gravity pulled most of the material toward several small points, one of which would eventually become our Sun. The other…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (269+ words) When you think of an asteroid impact, you’re probably imagining something like the cataclysmic event that nearly wiped out the dinosaurs. In an astonishingly rare event, a rock the size of the island of Manhattan could come hurtling from deep…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (316+ words) Read Time: 7 minutes Most people think of Mars as a big red dustball, but researchers recently found Martian mineral deposits suggesting it was once warm and humid. The team used the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (360+ words) Read Time: 8 minutes The universe is around 14 billion years old, but scientists theorize that no stars formed for the first several hundred million years, during an era known as the cosmic dark ages. They refer to the first billion years…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (175+ words) Read Time: 7 minutes Recently, a team of astronomers analyzed a stream of over 700,000 stars that the Milky Way likely absorbed from the dissolving Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. These stars are very distant, so the team investigated whether any of them host…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (128+ words) Read Time: 8 minutes Original study: Fragmented deoxyribonucleic acid could be extractable from Mars’s surface rocks Study was published on: October 24, 2025 The study was done at: Centro de Astrobiología (Spain), University of Aberdeen (Scotland), Foundation for the Promotion of Health and…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (216+ words) Read Time: 7 minutes Unless aliens are living somewhere nearby in the solar system, it’s unlikely that scientists will find direct evidence of extraterrestrial entities. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. Astrobiologists…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (73+ words) Read Time: 8 minutes Original study: A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox Study was published on: December 1, 2025 Study author(s): Robin H.D. Corbet The study was done at: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA), NASA Goddard Space…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (250+ words) Read Time: 8 minutes Scientists at Pennsylvania State University and the California Institute of Technology recently investigated this question. They identified radio signals as especially relevant to the search for intelligent alien life because astronomers know that intelligent species, humans in…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (155+ words) Read Time: 8 minutes The team first ruled out biological sources of these gases, since living things could, ironically, produce a false positive for a technosignature. They searched a database of all chemicals made by Earth-based life and found that no…...