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Artist’s impression of Oumuamua, the first visitor to our solar system from interstellar space. (ESO/M. Kornmessar via Wikimedia Commons)

Oumuamua: It’s a Comet, It’s an Asteroid, No, wait, It’s a Comet

June 29, 2018

An odd rocky cigar-shaped object called Oumuamua made news late last year when it was determined to be of interstellar origin. It was touted as the solar system’s first visitor from another star system. Some scientists first pegged Oumuamua as a comet soon after its discovery. A few months later studies indicated that it was […]

Artist’s impression of Oumuamua, the first visitor to our solar system from interstellar space. (ESO/M. Kornmessar via Wikimedia Commons)

Radio Telescope Finds No Signs of Alien Life in Interstellar Object

April 12, 2018

Soon after the October 2017 discovery of Oumuamua, the first confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system, rumors and conspiracy theories began popping up all over the Internet. Because of its suspected origins, as well as its odd, flat, cigar-shaped appearance, word started to spread that the object was actually an alien interstellar space […]

Making a friend with a Tarantula. (GollyGForce via Flickr/Creative Commons)

Eek! Spiders and Snakes; Interstellar Visitor; Sugar Boosts Cancer Growth

October 27, 2017

Why We Don’t Like Spiders and Snakes Two of the most common fears among people from around the world are arachnophobia, which is a fear of spiders and ophiophobia, the fear of snakes. Whether they live in rural communities or in the heart of a big city, most people generally get, at least, a little […]

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of Galaxy NGC 6753 was released on September 18th. This galaxy is said to be one of only two known spiral galaxies that were both massive enough and close enough to permit detailed observations of their galactic coronas, which can only be detected by their X-ray emissions. (NASA/ESA/Hubble)

September 2017 Science Images

September 29, 2017

This time-lapse video, assembled from a set of Hubble Space Telescope photos, reveals two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features. The asteroid pair, called 2006 VW139/288P, was observed in September 2016, just before the asteroid made its closest approach to the Sun. (NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale and Z. Levay (STScI))

60 Days in Bed For Science; Asteroid Belt Mystery Solved & Ice on Mercury?

September 22, 2017

Mystery Asteroid Belt Object Really a Binary Asteroid Back in 2011 a Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System or PanSTARRS survey detected an object in the asteroid belt displaying comet-like activity. So along with being labeled an asteroid, when it was discovered five years earlier, scientists also gave it a comet designation. After analyzing […]

September 2016 Science Images

September 30, 2016

Jupiter’s Auroras; Distant Universe in Detail; Severe Fire Season For Amazon

July 1, 2016

NASA’s Hubble and Juno Probe Study Jupiter’s Auroras As NASA’s probe Juno buzzes closer and closer for its 4th of July rendezvous with Jupiter, astronomers are using the good ole Hubble Space Telescope to study the planet’s auroras, which are just like our own northern and southern lights. These spectacular light shows in the Jovian […]

Rosetta's NavCaM snapped this shot of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 20, 2014 ((C) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0)

Oxygen Found in Comet’s Atmosphere; Making Robots Walk Like Humans

October 28, 2015

Scientists Find Oxygen in Comet’s Atmosphere A couple of days ago we told you about the discovery of a boozy comet that dispensed large amounts of alcohol, sugar and other organic compounds as it made its pass by the sun last January. Now, researchers from the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University […]

Scientists Spot Cosmic Bartender

October 26, 2015

For the first time, an international team of researchers has discovered a cosmic cocktail maker hurtling through space at a speed of around 21.8 kilometers per second. The researchers discovered that Comet Lovejoy is pumping out large amounts of the same kind of alcohol (ethyl) used in alcoholic beverages and a type of sugar into […]

Rosetta's NavCaM snapped this shot of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 20, 2014 ((C) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0)

Rosetta Mission Fuels Argument About Origin of Earth’s Water

December 12, 2014

The debate about the origin of Earth’s water just got deeper. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta has sent back some interesting information regarding water vapor it detected and analyzed on its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. According to the ESA and an international group of scientists, the analysis shows that the chemical composition of […]

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