The cotton sprouts, unfortunately, perished after a couple of days.
What’s the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite?
The meteorite only lives as it is falling.
New Horizons beams back clear image of farthest object ever visited in the solar system
Brian May from Queen also wrote a song about it.
China spacecraft makes historic landing on the dark side of the moon
It’s the first mission to ever land on the far side of the moon.
Astronomers find a new way to ‘see’ dark matter using starlight from rogue stars
Lone stars that roam through intergalactic space might one-day probe the nature of dark matter.
Researchers find a new class of planets, made of sapphires and rubies
Ca-ching!
Saturn’s rings are raining down — in about 100 million years, they’ll be gone
If you like it then you should have kept the rings on it.
Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space
Biology — it may literally be out of this world.
This star is so massive it’s forming another star instead of planets
Now, that’s a first!
Astronomers just discovered the most distant object in the solar system — they’ve called it ‘Farout’
It’s more than 100 times farther away than Earth is from the sun.
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa’s almost as cold as your ex’s heart, just as frozen.
Virgin Galactic tourist space rocket passes first test
Fancy a trip to outer space?
Exploding stars may have wiped off large ocean life 2.5 million years ago
The planet’s largest shark may have been killed by a supernova.
NASA spacecraft beams back first image from inside the Sun’s atmosphere
We have a spacecraft inside the sun’s atmosphere — take that in for a moment.
Voyager 2 enters interstellar space
Take me with you!
Helium exoplanet inflates like a balloon
Helium was predicted to be one of the most common elements of exoplanets, but was only recently observed for the first time.
China launches new rover aimed for the dark side of the moon
The natural satellite, not the 1973 album by Pink Floyd. Sadly.
Christmas dinner launched towards the ISS
It’s hearty space food.
Oxford scientist may have finally solved dark matter riddle — the universe might be made out of a ‘negative mass’ fluid
If proven right, this theory could be one of the most important developments in 21st-century physics.
Supermassive black holes like to wear gas donuts — and we found out why
In all honesty, I’d wear a donut if I could get away with it, too.