extraterrestrial water
Citizen Scientists Find Fifteen “Active Asteroids”
Nature often defies our simple explanations. Take comets and asteroids, for example. Comets are icy and have tails; asteroids are…
4 months ago
Water Found on the Surface of an Asteroid
Our Solar System is a collection of objects from planets and moons to comets and asteroids. It's thought there are…
5 months ago
China Reveals How it’s Planning to Search for Water Ice at the Moon’s South Pole
It’s been a big week for Chinese space exploration. First a successful test flight of Zhuque-3 and this week we…
6 months ago
What’s Up With Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots? Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later
The crater that contains those puzzlingly bright spots on Ceres may harbor an equally puzzling haze. Or not. The hints of haze…
9 years ago
Defining Life I: What are Astrobiologists Looking For?
How can astrobiologists find extraterrestrial life? In everyday life, we usually don’t have any problem telling that a dog or…
10 years ago