Category: Science

A dark, silhouetted object. NASA‘s school-bus-sized telescope won’t quit. In what’s become a brilliant investment for scientists and taxpayers alike, the Hubble Space Telescope launched into space 35 years ago, and for decades has returned detailed insights into the universe. In recognition of Hubble’s longevity, NASA and the European …

An extraterrestrial drive. A Martian spacecraft spied a Martian rover rumbling through the red desert. The new image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which has orbited Mars since 2006 — shows the space agency’s car-sized Curiosity rover traversing the terrain below as it scales the …

New study uses computers to simulate the Red Planet's past. For the past four years, NASA‘s Perseverance rover has rambled over a region of Mars where scientists say a strong river once emptied into a crater, creating a large delta. But for that to have happened, a lot of water would have …

Here's why astronomers are excited. Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up to 5.5 million miles in space. This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. …

“This one is an all-timer.” Earth isn’t as extreme as the sci-fi desert planet Arrakis, of Dune fame. But it still hosts some colossal dust storms. On April 19, two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellites snapped footage of an immense dust storm sweeping across parts of New Mexico, Texas, and …

What happened to the Red Planet's ancient atmosphere? A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, could be crucial evidence to support the theory that Mars …

It's an odd space rock. A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed “Donaldjohanson.” On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which …

Are extraterrestrials in exoplanet K2-18b's seas? A team of scientists is doubling down on its claims that a world 124 light-years away in space is likely covered in oceans and full of aquatic life, with new data to support the findings. The research, led by astronomers at the University of Cambridge …

“This caught our attention.” A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. “This caught our attention,” Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and space livestreaming company Sen, told Mashable. Sen has three cameras hosted on the space station, …

“That never gets old!” The future of rocketry is here. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, recently blasted a crew of space tourists on a 10-minute suborbital flight, reaching nearly 66 miles above Earth‘s surface. Blue Origin’s big-windowed crew capsule parachuted down to the West Texas desert on …