This is a Dust Avalanche on Mars
For decades, scientists have observed dark landslides called slope streaks on Mars. First seen by the Viking orbiters in the…
Traveling the Solar System with Pulsar Navigation
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found a way for travelers through the Solar System…
What Does Micrometeoroid Damage do to Gossamer Structures Like Webb’s Sunshield?
Tiny little bullets flood the solar system, each micrometeoroid a potential hazard. New research has found that the James Webb…
A Giant Galaxy has been Unwinding its Neighbor for 400 Million Years
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera,…
Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly
Curators handling lunar rocks take extreme care to keep these materials from contamination as they work with them in cold…
InSight Senses its two Biggest Marsquakes so far, Coming From the Opposite Side of the Planet
NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected the two most powerful "marsquakes" to date, which are already revealing things about Mars'…
Why Believing in the Multiverse Isn’t Madness
What is the multiverse? The idea that the universe we inhabit is just one of many parallel universes gets a…
Scientists Create Molecules that can Follow Darwinian Evolution
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a set of RNA molecules that are capable of…
A Pulsar and Star are Orbiting Each Other Every 62 Minutes. The Fastest “Black Widow” Binary Ever Seen
Caption: An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat…