LifeTracer: New AI tool can help identify life in Martian samples
As space agencies prepare to bring home pieces of the Martian system, the hope of finding life elsewhere…
Chang’e-6 samples show ancient lunar impacts left rust on the Moon
For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron…
Underground water in Martian dunes points to hidden habitable zones
Late in the story of Mars, long after its lakes and rivers had faded, something quiet still moved…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Astronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The…
Saturn’s icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life
For years, Saturn’s small icy moon Enceladus has drawn attention for the erupting jets at its south pole.…
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io is burning much hotter than expected
Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can…
Two asteroid impacts on the Moon filmed by an amateur astronomer
An image showing the Moon and its various asteroid impacts. (Image source: Gunboat_Willie – Pixabay) A Japanese astronomer…
New quantum sensors aim to detect hidden forces behind dark matter
For decades, you have heard scientists say that most of the universe is missing. They are not being…
New high-res black hole images challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity
A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet…
New model reveals how supermassive stars shaped the early universe
Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest…
Dark matter obeys the same cosmic rules as ordinary matter, study finds
Most people rarely experience the effects of dark matter in ordinary life. However, we live in an environment…