New research shows how comets could deliver the building blocks for life in systems with close-orbiting planets, aiding in the search for life beyond our Solar System.

The Solar System sits within the galactic plane, so it was once impossible to look past the core of the Milky Way through countless stars and clogging dust to the distant cosmos. This region was called "The Zone of Avoidance." But those days are over. While visible light is blocked, infrared and radio can pierce through the region, revealing galaxies on the far side of the Milky Way. Astronomers are finding thousands of previously hidden galaxies behind the core.

The ESA's ExoMars mission just observed nightglow in Mars' atmosphere, a phenomenon that also happens on Earth.

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A team of Chinese researchers has shown how fertility can be boosted for plants grown in lunar soil.