Russia’s Luna 25 lander crashed into the Moon
On August 10th, 2023, Roscosmos’ Luna-25 mission launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome atop Soyuz-2 rocket.
This mission was the first lunar mission to launch from...
Floating seismometers could help peer into the core of Venus
Seismology has been ubiquitous on Earth for decades, and missions such as InSight have recently provided the same data for the inside of Mars.
Understanding...
This small satellite could clean up space junk in record time
What if you could build a machine that helps clean up space on a budget?
A team of students from Brown University did just that.
Their...
Watch a giant exoplanet’s 17-year journey around its star in a 10-second video
Ever wondered what it would be like to watch a planet go around its star?
A scientist has made a video that lets you do...
This sure looks like the movements of a glacier across ancient Mars
It is a scientific certainty that Mars was once a much different place, with a denser atmosphere, warmer temperatures, and where water once flowed.
Evidence...
This Jupiter-sized exoplanet is unusual for several reasons
In a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, team of international researchers examined exoplanet TOI-4860 b, which is...
Neptune’s vanishing clouds linked to solar cycle, study finds
For the first time in nearly 30 years of observations, Neptune's cloud cover has dramatically decreased, and researchers think the sun's solar cycle might...
How extraterrestrial tales of aliens gain traction
One night, upon returning to the cave that his tribe calls home, the monkey-humanoid Moon-Watcher finds a strange crystal object, a kind of monolith...
NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal world may reveal the mysteries of Earth’s interior
French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.
Since then,...
Mysterious star may solve puzzle of universe’s strongest magnets
Magnetars are some of the universe's most powerful magnets.
These super-tight, dead stars have extremely strong magnetic fields and can be found throughout our galaxy.
Yet,...