Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
We Finally Know the Birthplace of the Mars-Sized Rock That Spawned Our Moon
Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar system, a Mars-sized object dubbed Theia slammed into…
View Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through NASA’s Multiple Lenses
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign,…
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…
Comet newly discovered from AZ’s Mt. Lemmon now appearing
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye this week, and its name should give…
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…