Science
Hubble Finds Buckyballs in Space
Scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have found a very complex molecule out there in space. Called Buckyballs, after…
NASA Model Shows Greenland’s Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over the Next 1000 Years, Raising Sea Levels by 7 Meters
Great news! Humankind's greatest-ever engineering project is nearing completion. Soon we will have warmed the Earth enough to get rid…
Deep Space Atomic Clocks Will Help Spacecraft Answer, with Incredible Precision, if They’re There Yet
How do spacecraft know where they are? There's no GPS out there. Right now, it involves sending a signal to…
The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found
Galaxy mergers are not particularly rare, but they are important events. Not only for the galaxies involved, but for scientists…
Saltwater Similar to the Earth’s Oceans has been Seen on Europa. Another Good Reason Why We Really Need to Visit This Place
Jupiter's moon Europa is an intriguing world. It's the smoothest body in the Solar System, and the sixth-largest moon in…
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…