NASA can’t communicate with its Mars robots and the Sun’s to blame
NASA’s various Mars exploration robots are on their own, at least for the next few weeks. The space agency isn’t able to communicate directly with …
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Martian rocks keep hitting Earth, but something doesn’t add up
For thousands of years, Martian rocks have bombarded Earth, sent flying through space after being ejected from their homeworld by violent impacts or volcanic processes. …
Earth microbes could help astronauts grow plants in lunar soil
Future missions to the Moon could see astronauts growing the first plants on the lunar surface. But, getting lunar soil to grow plants has been …
Webb and Hubble team up to capture galactic collision in breathtaking detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the now-aging Hubble telescope have joined forces to capture observations of a beautiful galactic collision. The new images captured …
Scientists detect oxygen on Venus’s dayside for the first time ever
Scientists have now captured direct detections of oxygen on the daylight side of Venus. This discovery could teach researchers more about the atmosphere on Venus. …
Lucy discovers yet another surprise during Dinkinesh flyby
Earlier this month, NASA’s Lucy probe completed its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that it actually was part of a binary pair with …
Astronomers discover record-breaking black hole from early universe
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole we have ever seen. The record-breaking black hole was discovered using the combined data of NASA’s Chandra …
ESA’s Euclid telescope shares first images from dark universe mission
The European Space Agency hopes to create the most extensive 3D map of our universe yet, and it plans to do so with the Euclid …
James Webb shows us what our Sun probably looked like when it was birthing
Our Sun is over four billion years old. But, if you could go back in time and take a photo of it, just as it …
NASA’s ad-free streaming service launches this month
NASA’s ad-free streaming service, NASA+, will launch this month. The space agency revealed NASA+ in July and said that the service will be wholly ad-free …
Saturn’s rings will vanish in 2025, but they won’t really be gone
Saturn’s rings will vanish in 2025, but don’t worry, they’ll return. NASA says that the rings around the planet will appear to disappear completely. However, …
NASA’s Kepler telescope discovered rare planetary system with 7 sweltering planets
While looking at compiled data from NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered the existence of a seven-planet system of sweltering planets larger than …
Researchers might’ve solved a 70-year-old mystery of disappearing stars
While watching the night sky in 1952, astronomers at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory were baffled when three stars simply vanished from a region of the sky. …
NASA’s Juno Probe finds more evidence of organic compounds on Ganymede
New observations of the Jovian moon Ganymede have uncovered further evidence that subsurface oceans could exist on the large moon. The detection was made during …
James Webb captures breathtaking view of the Crab Nebula
Scientists really want to understand what happens when a star dies. Sure, we know that supernovas are triggered, and scientists have even watched dying stars …
NASA captures image of eerie ‘ghost hand’ in space
In 1895, the first X-rays were taken when Wilhelm Röntgen imaged the bones in his wife’s hand. Now, we can use those same X-rays to …
The Sun will reach solar maximum early, new forecast claims
Our Sun’s solar cycle will peak earlier than expected, which means the star at the center of our solar system is going to reach its …
Scientific breakthrough could help explain why Uranus is so hot
Scientists have now confirmed the discovery of infrared auroras on Uranus, and it could help us better understand why the planet is so hot. The …
NASA is working on alternatives for the Mars Sample Return
The Mars Sample Return mission is going to be exorbitantly expensive. So expensive, in fact, that a report released in late September has NASA looking …
SpaceX wants to launch 12 flights a month in 2024
SpaceX will launch even more Starlink satellites into orbit next year, and new reports say the company will aim for a total of at least …
Venus may have been shaped by Earth-like plate tectonics
A new study suggests that Earth’s hotter sister (Venus is roughly 100 times hotter than Earth) could have formed by Earth-like plate tectonics billions of …
NASA will install groundbreaking laser communication system on ISS next month
NASA and SpaceX are set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on November 5. The uncrewed Dragon spacecraft aboard …
Mars is hiding a core of molten iron, new study suggests
Over the past several decades, we’ve continued to learn more and more about the Martian world. Rovers like Curiosity and Perseverance help us learn more …
Fly over Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’ with this incredible 3D video
A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) lets space lovers fly over the “labyrinth of night,” a large canyon found on Mars …
Some near-Earth asteroids could actually be pieces of the Moon
There are over 32,000 near-Earth asteroids flying through space near our planet. While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least …
Mars once had the ‘right conditions’ for life, new data shows
Mars was very likely a “planet of rivers,” geoscientist Benjamin Cardenas of Penn State University and the lead author of a new research project shared …
NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away
Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more …
A dwarf planet close to Mars could have what it takes to sustain life
A dwarf planet called Ceres could offer some amazing insights into our quest to discover alien life within our solar system. The small planet is …
Don’t miss the peak of the 2023 Orionids meteor shower this weekend
The 2023 Orionids meteor shower will take place this month, lighting up the skies with bright fireballs and small meteorites as Earth passes through the …
We finally know what caused the strongest marsquake ever
Last year, we recorded the largest marsquake that we had ever detected. The quake, which shook the planet violently, was not caused by a crashing …