Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side
Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have…
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…
Earth is getting darker and it’s changing the planet’s climate balance
For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere.…
What is Quasi-Moon and why is it silently orbiting Earth?
Quasi-moon 2023 FW13 is very small and dark, so it reflects very little sunlight. Its orbit is unusual,…
An Asteroid’s Billion-Year-Old Secret Is a “Genuine Surprise” to Scientists
Asteroid Ryugu’s samples reveal that liquid water persisted on its parent body for over a billion years, reshaping…
“Very Strange” – Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Behaving Unusually
Purple haze around Titan – A false-color image of Titan captured in 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft. The…
Scientists Crack the Billion-Year-Old Mystery of the Magnetic Field
A view of the Earth’s interior around 1 billion years ago: Tangled magnetic field lines inside the core…
Help Map the Moon’s Molten Flows!
When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure, melt parts…
The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth
A stream of charged particles that blows from Earth (foreground) to the Moon could account for the rust…
Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time
An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake.…
Life on Earth May Be Thanks to a Lucky Planetary Collision
Artistic illustration of the early formation phase of the Solar System. At that time, the young Sun (in…
60% of Earth’s Land Now Outside “Safe Zone”
A new global study warns that most of Earth’s land is already beyond safe ecological limits, with far-reaching…