29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... notable asteroid to date appeared on our radar late last year in November 2017. `Oumuamua, our planet’s first interstellar visitor shook up our idea of what an alien asteroid might look like. Its unusual shape caused a flurry...
15 August 2018
Space is dark and not as full of galaxies as we thought, new study shows
... region in question had far fewer galaxies than they expected – proving that starlight was unable to penetrate interstellar gas. "It is not that the opacity is a cause of the lack of galaxies," said Steven Furlanetto, a UCLA professor of astronomy...
05 December 2018
New theory unifies dark matter with dark energy
... that "empty space" takes the role of gravitating negative masses which are distributed all over the interstellar space,’ to describe his cosmological constant. Being able to unify the two darknesses is therefore a big plus for...
09 December 2019
Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks
While exploring the idea of how interstellar rocks might have had a hand in delivering more than just essential compounds to Earth, an international team of astrobiologists ...
