Halloween is almost here, and with it comes a chance of some natural fireworks in the night sky. Earth is now passing through a broad stream of dust and rocks in the inner solar system responsible for the Taurid meteor…
Both Taurid meteor showers are active on Halloween, Saturn rides high all evening and a 63% waning gibbous moon waits until about 11 p.m. to rise. Here’s what to look for Saturday night. Trick-or-treating is not the only thing happening after dark on…
Webb spectra suggest 3I/ATLAS carries dusty ice grains resembling material in distant solar system worlds. (CREDIT: The Brighter Side of News) Dusty ice streaming from a comet born around another star carries a surprisingly familiar signature. Observations of interstellar comet…
Scientists studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence that its water-ice grains contain substantial amounts of rocky material. Southwest Research Institute researchers announced the findings on 26 October 2026, following three observations of the comet…
Where did we come from? The answer, many scientists have proposed, is space. One longstanding theory, hypothesized for over a century, is that life on Earth emerged from fragments of prebiotic chemistry that arrived from the cosmic unknowns, possibly delivered…
Published in Scientific Reports, the computational modelling study demonstrates that the extreme velocities and entry angles of cometary impacts would almost certainly vaporise fragile prebiotic molecules upon atmospheric entry or surface impact, making cometary delivery a “one-off fluke” rather than…
October 28: The Moon hangs with Uranus The W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia is prominent in the northern sky after sunset as it wheels around the North Celestial Pole, which marked by the North Star, Polaris. Around 8 P.M. local daylight time — after dark but…
"We used to think that solid rocks would evaporate from the enormous heat and brilliant light generated in the air collision," said meteor astronomer and lead author Dr. Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. "We…
[SwRI] A Southwest Research Institute-led study used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, just the third object from beyond our solar system ever identified. As part of a Webb program dedicated to…
The appearance of life on Earth is still a mystery. It's constrained by a few factors; for instance, the Earth had to have cooled before life could get started, and there had to be some liquid water, the right chemicals,…
Meteor showers such as the Perseids and Geminids, comets including the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, and fireballs and meteorites.
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