First-ever images of powerful X1.3-class solar flare captured by solar telescope
From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some…
If a tiny black hole passed through your body would it hurt you?
Black holes keep showing up in the news. Scientists have recorded the space ripples from their violent crashes…
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission has taken its first photo, and it’s good news
Mars is a planet that fascinates many scientists, notably regarding the presence of life elsewhere in the solar…
Worm experiments expose hidden health risks of deep space travel
When scientists first sent microscopic worms into orbit in 2018, they hoped to answer a question that has…
New analysis challenges Einstein’s theory on the speed of light
The speed of light has been one of science’s most trusted markers of stability. For more than a…
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…