This Mars rover could finally reveal whether life ever existed on Mars
Mars was not always the cold, dry world we see today. Billions of years ago, scientists believe it may have been warm, wet, and wrapped in a much thicker atmosphere,…
James Webb uncovers exotic salt clouds on a mysterious pink world
Astronomers led by Northwestern University have uncovered an unusual feature surrounding the famous “Pink Planet”: skies filled with salty clouds. For more than a decade, the ancient world, known for…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft uses Mars as a giant slingshot toward a mysterious metal world
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has successfully completed a close flyby of Mars, using the planet’s gravity to gain speed and redirect its path toward the asteroid Psyche. On May 15, the…
Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way
Nearly a century ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that almost all galaxies are receding from the Milky Way. This observation became a cornerstone of modern cosmology because it provided key…
NASA brings Crew-11 home early in rare medical evacuation
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission has successfully concluded with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday morning, just off the coast of San Diego. The landing brought to a…
10 quintillion hydrogen bombs every second: Webb detects massive galactic eruption
Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever observed in the universe, flowing out of a nearby galaxy…
New moonquake discovery could change NASA’s Moon plans
A recently published study reports that shaking from moonquakes, rather than impacts from meteoroids, was the main force behind the shifting terrain in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the site where Apollo…
NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. i> X-rays from Chandra have been combined with…
Ancient solar system crash may explain Bennu and Ryugu’s origin
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the…
A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories
Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System. The object was found…