This Crater on Mars is Just a Couple of Years Old
Changes are always taking place on Mars, from factors like seasonal variations and wind. But there’s one other aspect that…
A Supermassive Black Hole Just Flipped its Entire Magnetic Field
Astronomers may have seen the magnetic field of a black hole undergo a magnetic reversal.
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…