3I/ATLAS Has An Extreme Taste For Heavy Water
Reported by Universe Today
More and more details about 3I/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attracted the attention of some of the most powerful observatories in the world when it was discovered in July 2025, and...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:56 +0000
Space Rocks Carry Hundreds of Thousands of Complex Organic Molecules—and We Just Photographed Them
Reported by Universe Today
Scientists have known for a while that meteorites contain the “building blocks” of life - complex organic molecules such as amino acids, simple sugars, or even the chemical rungs of DNA. But anyone who has taken an organic chemistry class knows there a...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:26 +0000
JUICE mission to fly by Earth next week! Details here
Reported by Space | EarthSky
The JUICE mission will perform a flyby of Earth next week on September 28. The spacecraft is headed toward Jupiter's icy moons, where it will arrive in 2031.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:00 +0000
An Epic View of the Seasons
Reported by NASA
The tilt in Earth’s axis of rotation makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons in imagery from a NASA camera in deep space....
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:01 +0000
A Rare, Distant Clump of Early Galaxies Reveals Ancient Cosmic Secrets
Reported by Universe Today
The discovery of a very early and rare proto-supercluster of infant galaxies may help give clues to the formation of such clusters and their connection to the Cosmic Web....
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:16 +0000
Smashed Icy Moons Cool Too Rapidly to Retain Oceans
Reported by Universe Today
There are more than 450 confirmed moons orbiting the eight major planets, but only a handful of them provide unique scientific value to pique the interests of the scientific community, specifically their potential for hosting life as we know it. This is du...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:56 +0000