Reading Europa's Fingerprints
Reported by Universe Today
Beneath Europa's cracked and frozen shell lies a vast ocean of liquid water and what's seeping up through that ice may be one of the most compelling clues we have ever found about the moon's potential for life. A new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:23 +0000
Life, But Not As We Know It
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For sixty years, the search for life beyond Earth has been built on the single assumption that alien life will look enough like us to recognise. A radical new idea called Assembly Theory is challenging that assumption. A team from the Arizona State Univers...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:15 +0000
The Sun's Great Escape
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Our Sun didn't always call this quiet corner of the Milky Way home. New research using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite has uncovered evidence that the Sun fled the chaotic heart of our Galaxy four to six billion years ago and it didn't...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:08 +0000
Is the Universe Defective? Part 2: The Persistence of Memory
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But here’s the thing about these defects. They can’t just go away. They’re stuck....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:23 +0000
The Seven Hour Explosion Nobody Could Explain
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On 2 July 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray burst lasting over seven hours, nearly twice the duration of anything previously recorded. Not only was it the longest ever seen, it repeated, firing off multiple distinct bursts a...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:40 +0000
NASA's DART Mission Also Changed Didymos' Orbit Around Sun
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The spacecraft changed the binary system’s orbit, confirming that a kinetic impactor can be an effective planetary defense technique for deflecting a near-Earth object....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:41 +0000