Science
An Orbit Map of the Solar System
If you want to know what a talent for scientific visualizations looks like, check out Eleanor Lutz. She's a PhD…
Mimas Pushes Through Saturn’s Rings Like a Snowplow
Saturn's moon Mimas is the smallest of the gas giant's major moons. (Saturn has 62 moons, but some of them…
That Explains a Lot. The Moon’s Largest Crater has a Chunk of Metal Embedded in it That’s 5 Times Bigger than the Big Island of Hawaii
One of the largest craters in the Solar System is on our Moon. It's called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin…
There’s a Ring of Cool Gas Wrapped Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
There's a lot going on at the center of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A-Star resides there,…
Different Conditions From Earth Drive the Movement of Sand Dunes on Mars
Mars is a sandy planet and the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has given us tons of…
This Strange Feature on Mars was Probably the Result of an Ancient Volcanic Explosion
A strange feature on the surface of Mars has kept scientists guessing about its origin. It's a surface deposit of…
The Collision that Created the Moon Might Have Also Brought Water to the Early Earth
Scientists at the University of Munster have discovered that Earth got its water from a collision with Theia. Theia was…
Planetary Society’s Light Sail 2 is Set to Launch on a Falcon Heavy Rocket Next Month
The Planetary Society is going to launch their LightSail 2 CubeSat next month. LightSail 2 is a test mission designed…
Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? Black Holes May Reveal the Answer
What is dark matter made of? It's one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark…
Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments
An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter.