Researchers from Imperial College London found that a sample from asteroid Ryugu was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms, indicating that strict contamination controls were insufficient.

Westerlund2 captured by Hubble.

Credit:
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team

This is the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater.

Image credits: Esa

The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and located approximately 960 light-years away.

The most distant black hole detected, at the center of a galaxy called QSO J0313-1806, is around 13 billion light-years away.

K2-360 b is an ultra-dense super-Earth, 1.6 times the size of Earth, with a mass 7.7 times that of Earth, making it the densest well-characterized planet of its kind.

Daisy Worlds are imaginary planets that balance their environment using simple life forms, like black and white daisies, which help control the planet’s temperature and climate.