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…
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…
Earth’s magnetic field flipped wildly 565 million years ago and life changed forever
Long before life thrived in Earth’s oceans, the planet’s magnetic field became disorganized. Deep within the ancient rocks…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
Major breakthrough: Water found on 7-billion-year-old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reshapes planet formation theories
NASA scientists have made a significant breakthrough. They confirmed the detection of water’s chemical signature on the interstellar…
Eugene Shoemaker: The only human buried on the Moon, and why NASA honoured him |
Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eugene Shoemaker holds a unique place in space history; he is the…
White dwarf star is still feasting on dead Earth-like planet 3 billion years later
Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located…
Moon dust from Chang’e-6 mission reveals asteroids carried water to Earth
In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks…
How a young Jupiter saved Earth from falling into the Sun
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals,…
Titan’s icy surface hides a chemical mystery that could explain how life began
For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil…
Scientists Just Detected a Long-Lost Planet ‘Hiding’ Inside Earth
If proto-Earth had all its parts and chemistry replaced to become the Earth we know today, can the…
Most detailed glimpse yet of doomed star captured by astronomers | National
The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637, with…