25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... amount that would be expected if Pluto was formed by millions upon millions of comets or other Kuiper Belt objects smashing together. Nitrogen is expected to be a significant constituent of icy bodies orbiting far out beyond the giant planets, but...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... objective is to demonstrate the effect a kinetic impact would have on a small asteroid. To achieve this, DART will deliberately smash itself into a 160 metre moonlet informally called ‘Didymoon,’ that is one half of a binary asteroid system called...
02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
... discover a major milestone in its formation; that a galaxy slightly more massive than the Small Magellanic Cloud, smashed into our galaxy about 10 billion years ago leaving its stars to populate the Milky Way’s inner...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
... the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio I.e how much deuterium there is compared with hydrogen. Oceans originating from comets smashing into Earth was recently ruled out as a leading source of the wet stuff, after research showed that...
29 April 2019
Preparing for an asteroid impact - test underway now!
We’ve seen Hollywood’s version of what would happen if our planet suddenly became the target of a hostile asteroid intent on smashing in to us and wiping out life on Earth, but how would the situation really be handled by those whose job it is to ...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
.... This works in a similar principle to a particle accelerator, albeit at much lower energies than are found in these atom-smashing devices, and turns the CO2 molecules into ions by giving them a charge and then accelerating them...
