NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence of surprisingly long organic molecules in a rock on Mars dating back to the early days of the Solar System that may be the product of biological activity. Although these molecules can be generated by other, non-biological means, the discovery suggests that these compounds may beread more
A sizable “city-killer” asteroid that was discovered late last year has been calculated to have a one in 77 chance of striking the Earth just eight years from now, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Although the chance of impact is still very low, the object’s higher than oneread more
The Sun will soon enter a so-called ‘battle zone’ phase that is expected to follow this solar cycle’s maximum, according to newly-formed space weather prediction company Lynker Space. Although this phase stabilizes the swarm of magnetic fields across the surface of the Sun, it also increases the chance that largeread more
Astronomers with Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics has discovered a strange interstellar “tunnel” of hot gases that stretches out for hundreds of light years from our region of space, a relatively empty pocket of space that the Sun is currently travelling through, toward the constellation Centaurus. Estimated toread more