Scientists Make a Game-Changing Find in the Bennu Asteroid
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According to the researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, some of the amino acids found in the asteroid Bennu likely formed in a different way than was previously thought, effectively challenging what we thought we knew about the origins of life....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:48 +0000
Very Few Planets Have the Right Chemistry for Life
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A complex web of interrelated factors make Earth a life-supporting planet, and some of those factors are chemical. New research shows how oxygen abundance regulates the availability of the important chemicals phosphorous and nitrogen on planets, and that f...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:29 +0000
The Moon Hides Mercury, Tours the Planets Through Late February
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The Moon has a busy next two weeks ahead of it. Fresh off of Tuesday’s annular solar eclipse, the Moon begins an evening tour of the planets in the last half of February 2026. The waxing Moon actually slides by every planet except Mars over the next week...
- By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
- On: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:24 +0000
Is Dark Energy Actually Evolving?
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Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can’t see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe - primarily how it is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up. But rec...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:51 +0000
How Rotten Eggs Solved an Exoplanet Mystery
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The smell of rotten eggs has solved one of exoplanet science's most persistent mysteries. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmospheres of four massive Jupiter like planets orbiting the star HR 8799,...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:05 +0000
A New Concept for Catching Up with 3I/ATLAS
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The third interstellar object detected in our Solar System (3I/ATLAS) has a unique and continually unfolding
story to tell of its nature and origin. In a recent paper, scientists from the i4is show how a spacecraft performing a Solar Oberth Manoeuvre (SOM)...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:37 +0000