Saturn 'On Razor's Edge' at Opposition for 2025
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It seems like most of the planets have fled the evening scene. But that’s about to change this week. Saturn reaches opposition on Sunday, September 21st, passing closest to the Earth at just over 8.5 Astronomical Units (AU) or 1.3 billion kilometers dist...
- By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
- On: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:48 +0000
Microbial Life Colonizes Post-Impact Craters And Thrives For Millions Of Years
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Researchers have dated the appearance of microbial life in a 78 million year old impact crater. Life colonized the fractured hydrothermal system the impact created, and thrived for millions of years. It could do the same on other worlds....
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:48 +0000
Earth Has Another Quasi-Satellite: The Asteroid Arjuna 2025 PN7
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Earth has a new co-moving neighbour. It's a new member of the group of asteroids that follow Earth-like orbits and are called quasi-satellites. Together, they constitute an asteroid belt....
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:48 +0000
Lucy's Main Belt Target Has Its Features Named
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When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system there are still a lot of places out there that need proper names. That means the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the non-governmental body respo...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:48 +0000
Will We Ever Make it to Mars?
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You know, if you take away the lack of air and water, the weaker Sun, the lower gravity, and the toxic soil, Mars isn’t all that bad of a place to live....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:48 +0000
Webb Spots a Massive Stellar Jet in the Outer Milky Way
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about double the distance from our Sun to its clos...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:48 +0000