Water On Earth Is Older Than The Sun

Water On Earth Is Older Than The Sun

It's no surprise that water was crucial to the formation of life on Earth. What may surprise you is that water on earth is older than the sun itself. Identifying the original source of Earth's water…
DDO 68: A Galaxy Of Deception

DDO 68: A Galaxy Of Deception

The nice thing about telescopes is that we can look back in time - light that is reaching us now may have originated a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, which means astronomers can view…
M60-UCD1: Tiny Galaxy, Supermassive Black Hole

M60-UCD1: Tiny Galaxy, Supermassive Black Hole

An ultracompact dwarf galaxy known as M60-UCD1 harbors a supermassive black hole – the smallest galaxy known to contain such a massive light-sucking object. The astronomers used the Gemini North 8-…
Research Reveals Moon's Violent Volcanic Past

Research Reveals Moon's Violent Volcanic Past

The farside of the moon may have had some extremely explosive volcanic eruptions hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings, reported in a paper submitted to the Journal of Geophysical…