NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking
A star is unleashing a barrage of X-rays that is causing a closely-orbiting, young planet to wither away an astonishing rate, according…
Colossal Eruption Carves ‘Canyon of Fire’ Onto the Sun’s Surface
On July 15, a solar filament erupted from the Sun’s upper left side, ejecting a powerful blast of…
Mariner 4: 60 Years Ago Today, NASA Changed How We Study The Solar System
Across July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This…
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction
A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth,…
New world beyond Neptune discovered, giving boost to ‘Planet Nine’ theory
If Neptune gets knocked out of its orbit by just 0.1%, it could cause turmoil in the cosmos.…
NASA to Preview Advanced US-India Radar Mission Ahead of Launch
With its two radar instruments — an S-band system provided by ISRO and an L-band system provided by…
Meteorite Discovery Could Fill Billion Year Gap in Moon History : ScienceAlert
A remarkable 2.35 billion year old meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has opened a new window into…
Dust devils on Mars leave ‘fingerprints’ that can guide future Red Planet missions
Martian dust devils are fleeting, but the footprints they leave behind can endure for months. Now, researchers have…
‘Ice cube’ clouds discovered at the galaxy’s center shouldn’t exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion
Two of the strangest structures in the galaxy just got even stranger. Ballooning above and below the Milky…
NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals secrets of a powerful, spinning neutron star
Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning neutron star, or “pulsar,” is dominated by the…
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
Open this photo in gallery: This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows jets of silicon monoxide…
Huge Eruption on the Sun Creates 250,000-Mile-Long ‘Canyon of Fire’
A screenshot from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory’s most recent 48-hour observation video. A massive filament of plasma…