How CO2 Ice Blocks Carve Strange Gullies on Mars Today
Researchers have recreated a Martian mystery in the lab: blocks of frozen carbon dioxide appear to burrow through sand, ...
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Fresh Ice on Enceladus Reveals Organic Clues to Life
Scientists reanalyzing archival data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered fresh, compelling evidence that Satur...
Tiny Dark Blob Detected 7.3 Billion Light-Years Away
A compact, unseen mass roughly a million times the mass of the Sun has been detected embedded in a galaxy whose light tr...
Planet Y: Hidden Earth-Size World Tilts the Kuiper Belt
New measurements of the Kuiper Belt plane reveal an unexpected 15-degree tilt among objects orbiting well beyond Neptune...
Which Planets Formed First in Our Solar System: New Views
Why do scientists still argue over which planets appeared first in our solar system? More than four decades of meteorite...
Hidden Impact: New 11-Million-Year Tektites in Australia
Tiny glass fragments uncovered in South Australia point to a violent asteroid strike roughly 11 million years ago — an e...
Why the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin Hides Deep Secrets
The Moon’s largest impact basin, the South Pole–Aitken (SPA), has just revealed a surprising detail about how it was for...
What Starship's 11th Test Means for NASA's Moon Plan
SpaceX’s Starship completed its 11th test flight with a planned splashdown of its upper stage in the Indian Ocean and a ...
Hidden Solar 'Tornadoes' Reveal New Space Weather Risks
Imagine a storm in space the size of the Sun’s influence, spawning dozens of smaller, tornado-like vortexes that race to...
Climate Tipping Points: Coral Reefs, Ice Sheets, and Risk
A landmark international assessment released in October 2025 warns that humanity is approaching — and in some cases has ...
Mars' Wind Speeds Far Higher Than Scientists Expected
New analyses of more than a thousand Martian dust devils show that wind speeds on Mars can be far stronger than previous...
Tabletop Detector Could Open a New Gravitational Window
Researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Sussex have developed a compact detector designed to sense gravitation...
Uranus Moon Ariel: Evidence for a 100-Mile Deep Ocean
New findings and the original image captionNew research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored ...
Quasar J0529 Shrinks: Outflow Cuts Mass Estimate Tenfold
New interferometer observations revise quasar J0529's massPeering into the first billion years of cosmic history require...
Million-Sun-Mass Dark Object Detected by Global Radio Array
Discovery: the smallest dark gravitational lens yet foundA multinational team of astronomers has identified the lowest-m...
New Geological Evidence: Mars Once Had a Northern Ocean
New geological evidence points to a northern Martian oceanBillions of years ago, Mars may have resembled Earth in one cr...
Pacific Beryllium-10 Spike Suggests Nearby Supernova
Unusual Beryllium-10 Deposit Raises Supernova QuestionAn international team of researchers has proposed that a marked in...
NASA Will Send Astronauts' Tissue 'Avatars' to Space
NASA's AVATAR: Sending Human Tissue to Test Space HealthWhen NASA prepares to send astronauts around the Moon on the Art...
Lunar Radio Echoes Could Reveal Dark Matter’s Identity
Listening to the Universe’s Dark AgesBy listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe f...
JWST Hints at Supermassive Dark Stars in the Early Universe
New JWST data point to dark-matter-powered starsAstronomers analyzing James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations hav...