Silverpit Impact: North Sea Asteroid and 330-ft Tsunami
Silverpit confirmed as an asteroid impactNew multidisciplinary research has resolved a long-standing geological controve...
Space
Rogue Planet Gorges at Record Six Billion Tonnes Per Second
Rogue planet devours disc material at unprecedented rateA free-floating or "rogue" planet, known as Cha 1107-7626, has b...
Why It Rains on the Sun: Elemental Shifts Explain It
Solar rain and the mystery of rapid coronal downpoursResearchers at the University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy ha...
Hubble Reveals NGC 6000: Old and New Stars in Color
Hubble’s image of NGC 6000 reveals a glowing galactic masterpiece filled with both old red stars and young blue ones. Am...
Moon's Two Faces: Far Side's Cooler Deep Mantle Revealed
Scientists find a deep thermal divide in the MoonScientists analyzing samples from China’s Chang’e 6 mission report that...
NASA's ESCAPADE Heads to Mars on Blue Origin New Glenn
NASA assigns ESCAPADE to Blue Origin’s New Glenn for fall 2025 launchMore than two years after NASA selected a launch pr...
Dwarf Galaxies Lit the Cosmic Dawn, New JWST Evidence
How the cosmic lights came onAstronomers are closing in on the long-standing mystery of what illuminated the early Unive...
Reanalysis Reveals Venus' Clouds Are Mostly Water Now
New Read on Old Data: Water in Venus' CloudsRevisiting archived spacecraft measurements with modern tools and perspectiv...
Most Exoplanets Lack Deep Oceans, New Study Shows Worldwide
New study overturns assumptions about ocean worldsA major new analysis led by ETH Zurich finds that many exoplanets prev...
Nearest Technological Civilization Could Be 33,000 ly Away
New study sets heavy odds against nearby intelligent lifeAn analysis presented at the EPSC–DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Hels...
Phosphine Detected in Brown Dwarf Deepens Phosphorus Puzzle
Discovery at a glanceAn international team led by astrophysicist Adam Burgasser (University of California, San Diego) ha...
Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Feeds at 6 Billion Tons - s
Rogue world caught in a stellar-style growth spurtA small, free-floating planetary-mass object known as Cha 1107-7626 ha...
Ozone Spike Inside Mars’s Winter Polar Vortex Revealed
Rare observations of Mars’s winter polar vortexA view of the north pole of Mars, created by taking images as seen by the...
NASA Images Reveal Collapse of Giant Iceberg A-23A
A giant iceberg breaks apartIceberg A-23A, once one of the largest and longest-lived tabular icebergs to emerge from Ant...
Asteroid Ryugu Reveals Billion-Year Liquid Water Legacy
Liquid water on Ryugu: a surprising, long-lived recordA multinational team of researchers, including scientists from the...
Complex Organic Chemistry Detected in Enceladus Ocean
Main findings and significanceA renewed analysis of NASA Cassini data has uncovered a diverse suite of complex organic m...
Periodic Signal in GRB 230307A: Newborn Magnetar Birth
Discovery: a heartbeat hidden in a gamma-ray burstAn international team of astronomers has identified a fleeting, period...
Invisible Venus Co-orbitals Could Threaten Earth Soon
Why Earth may be blind to dangerous asteroids near VenusAstronomers warn that a significant population of asteroids orbi...
Early Universe Was 'Pre‑Heated' Before Reionization
New analysis suggests early cosmos retained heat before first starsA team at the International Centre for Radio Astronom...
Moonquake Hazards: Risks to Future Lunar Bases & Habitats
Moonquakes reshape the lunar landscape and pose infrastructure risksA new analysis of geological evidence from the Apoll...