Science
The Global Dust Storm that Ended Opportunity Helped Teach us how Mars Lost its Water
The enduring, and maybe endearing, mystery around Mars is what happened to its water? We can say with near-certainty now,…
The World’s Space Agencies are Responding to a Hypothetical Asteroid Impact. You Can Watch it all Unfold Online.
Remember when Orson Welles' 1938 radio show called "The War of the Worlds" fooled people into thinking that Earth was…
Rapidly Spinning Black Hole is Spitting Out Blobs of Plasma
Black holes, those beguiling singularities that sit on the precipice of the known and the unknown, keep surprising us with…
Methane-Filled Lakes on Titan are “Surprisingly Deep”
The Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons wrapped up in 2017, when the spacecraft was sent plunging into the…
It’s Finally here. The First Ever Image of a Black Hole
"We have taken the first picture of a black hole." EHT project director Sheperd S. Doeleman of the Center for…
Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Have Had Volcanoes of Molten Iron
Imagine a time in the Solar System's past, when the asteroids were not solid rock, but blobs of molten iron.…
New Ring of Dust Discovered in the Inner Solar System
Discovering new things in space is a regular occurrence. Astronomers keep finding more distant objects in the outer reaches of…
Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don’t
I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny…
You’re in This Picture. It’s a Selfie Taken by SpaceIL’s Beresheet Lunar Lander on its Way to the Moon
Israel's space program doesn't get a lot of headlines. Israel itself is in the news a lot, but usually for…
InSight’s Rock-hammer is About Half a Meter Down and has Already Run into Rocks.
NASA's InSight lander is busy deploying its Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) into the Martian soil and has…