Why Mercury's Crust Is Far Less Silica-Rich Than Thought
How hot was Mercury’s interior when it was young? The short answer: hotter than many of us expected. A fresh infrared st...
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Earth's Ions Took Center Stage in a Mega Geomagnetic Storm
Imagine a space storm where the surprising villain is the air above your head. Strange, but true: new observations show ...
AI Spots Hidden Solar Storm Signals Nearly Nine Hours Early
Can an algorithm hear the Sun before our eyes can? Scientists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have trained one...
Saturn's Ten-Sided Storm: Decagon Emerges at the South Pole
Imagine a ten-sided storm the size of a continent, quietly circling a world a billion kilometres away. Hard to picture? ...
Roman Telescope to Map the Sky with Hubble's Sharpness
The universe just gained a new kind of wide-angle eye. Quietly, and with engineering the size of poetry, NASA’s Nancy Gr...
Inside NASA's Plan for Lunar Air Traffic Control at Gateway
Picture an airport without runways. No terminals. No tarmac. Spacecraft glide along invisible highways carved by Earth a...
Tiny Stars Tip the Scales of Early Massive Galaxies
Light from the universe's youth can lie to you. From across billions of years, the brightest stars shout the loudest, hi...
Heat Spikes in Cities Trigger Hidden Surge in ER Visits
In sweltering Chicago afternoons, emergency departments began to see an odd pattern: patients arriving not only with hea...
Trump Pushes for 1,000 Annual Rocket Launches by 2030
One thousand rocket launches a year. Short sentence. Big ambition. A recent White House memorandum signed by President D...
Why Spain’s Eclipse Turned the Sun’s Corona Gold at Sunset
The corona went gold over Spain. A brief, uncanny flush across the sky — and plenty of people reached for their cameras....
Suitcase Satellite Aims to Hear the Universe's First Signal
Imagine a tiny spacecraft, no larger than carry-on luggage, drifting out of Earth orbit and slipping into the Moon's sha...
Record Cosmic Laser: Hydroxyl Gigamaser 8 Billion LY
Imagine a beacon so bright it punches through eight billion years of darkness. Short sentence. Big idea.South Africa’s M...
NASA Releases Photos of 18m Moon Crater from Falcon 9
How does a discarded rocket stage carve a brand-new scar on the Moon? On August 5, 2025, a 4.4-ton upper stage from a Fa...
Ghostly River of Stars Reveals Dark Matter Halo Beyond
Imagine a silver ribbon unwinding around a faint galaxy 115 million light‑years away — thin, curved, and barely visible,...
A Tiny Shadow from the Big Bang Briefly Appeared Nearby
What can make a distant star wink for an hour and then go quiet forever? On the night of 18 December 2019 a star in the ...
Webb Reveals Lion Nebula: A Dying Star's Sculpted Face
Look up at NGC 2392 and what at first glance looks like a lion's face is actually the fossil record of a star saying goo...
How NASA Kept Voyager 2 Working: A Clever Power Swap
Half a century into its quiet trek beyond the planets, Voyager 2 is learning to live on a diet of watts. Small changes. ...
5.6 Trillion Pixels: Map of Nearly Four Billion Sky Objects
Imagine a photograph so vast that every scroll reveals a new island of stars. That is the simplest way to think about th...
Europe's Eclipse 2026: When Day Briefly Becomes Night
Midday will go quiet. The hustle of a summer day will fall away for a heartbeat, and for those standing beneath the Moon...
When Phobos Hid Earth: A Rare Martian Sky Spectacle
A tiny moon blinked. For a heartbeat, Earth vanished.On the evening of July 2, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its Mast...