space

New evidence links Earth's oxygen to rust on the MoonRecent laboratory work suggests that the surprising presence of hem...

The search for high-value minerals in space has often focused on asteroids, but new research suggests the Moon itself ma...

Spaceflight vision risks and a new predictive toolSpace travel poses many physiological challenges, and the eyes are par...

The 2024 YR4 Moon Threat and Why It MattersAsteroid 2024 YR4 was initially flagged after discovery because early orbital...

How a cosmic "accident" exposed hidden silicon chemistryA faint, ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has delive...

How a small asteroid told its storyOn 13 February 2023, a small asteroid designated 2023 CX1 briefly lit the afternoon s...

Heat outweighs shaking in small-scale quakesLaboratory experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology show tha...

Artemis II set to orbit the Moon in 2026NASA has confirmed that its next crewed mission to orbit the Moon, Artemis II, i...

Mercury’s oversized core: a long-standing puzzleMercury presents one of the Solar System’s most persistent enigmas: a co...

End of an era: the plan to deorbit the ISSFor a continuous quarter century, humans have lived and worked aboard the Inte...

Nickel-rich inclusions trapped in superdeep diamondsDiamonds recovered from South Africa's Voorspoed mine contain nickel...

Astronomers have obtained the first direct image of a protoplanet actively accreting material inside a dark gap of a mul...

Rare Particle Strike Suggests an Exploding Black HoleA tiny particle detected in 2023 registered an unprecedented energy...

Unusual minerals and organics discovered in JezeroNASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an uncommon suite of chemical...

Record-breaking neutrino may be final burst of an evaporating black holeAn exceptionally energetic neutrino that hit Ear...

Unusual gravitational wave and a provocative interpretationIn 2019 the LIGO and Virgo observatories registered an extrao...

Neutrino flavor changes reshape neutron star collisionsWhen two neutron stars collide, the encounter ranks among the mos...

Observation and discoveryAstronomers have observed an unusually exposed interior of a dying massive star in the supernov...

Observation and discoveryAstronomers have observed an unusually exposed interior of a dying massive star in the supernov...

Observation and discoveryAstronomers have observed an unusually exposed interior of a dying massive star in the supernov...