Mercury could be hiding signs of life beneath exotic salt glaciers, new study claims
Scientists have made quite the discovery on Mercury. As the planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is an intriguing planet, especially when you think about …
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Astronomers find unexpected elements in ‘teenage’ galaxies
Peering into the deep universe is like peering back through time. Distant galaxies appear as they did two to three billion years ago, and now, …
The hole in the ozone might not be healing after all, new study claims
The ozone hole was healing, or at least that’s what scientists told us. Managing to undo the damage that greenhouse gas emissions have done has …
NASA successfully tests new inflatable heat shield
Over a year ago, NASA’s Artemis I mission returned to Earth, completing a round-trip journey around the Moon and back. As it barreled through the …
Dinosaurs could exist on alien planets, study claims
Dinosaurs may still exist, at least on other planets. According to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, some …
James Webb reveals never-before-seen details at the center of the Milky Way
The Milky Way is a vast galaxy, and while it may be our home, scientists are still discovering new things about it. The latest photos …
‘Alien tech’ found at bottom of the ocean could just be industrial waste
Earlier this year, a Harvard professor claimed that ten tiny spheres found at the bottom of the ocean had come from a meteor known as …
Mysterious space junk that crashed into Moon was Chinese in origin
Three tons of space junk slammed into the Moon last year, leaving many bewildered and scratching their heads because they weren’t sure where the junk …
The universe began with two big bangs, new study claims
A new paper suggests that our universe may have begun with two big bangs. Scientists proposed the idea after struggling for decades to explain both …
China wants to complete a Mars sample return mission before NASA
China wants to steal NASA’s thunder by launching a Mars sample return mission that brings back Martian soil and rocks roughly two years before the …
Earth’s oxygen levels could drop, suffocating us all, study claims
Oxygen is one of the many components that make life on Earth possible. However, a new study says that an extreme drop in oxygen could …
James Webb spots exoplanet with sand clouds and sulfur-filled skies
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed something intriguing about a gas giant exoplanet known as WASP-107b. The Neptune-like gas giant currently orbits a star …
Re-experience NASA’s historic Artemis I mission
Last year, NASA made history once again by launching the first of its Artemis missions. The Artemis I mission saw the agency’s Orion spacecraft travel …
How to watch the Leonid meteor shower peak this weekend
The Leonids meteor shower will peak this weekend, which means skywatchers will get a chance to see one of the most beautiful sights of the …
A supernova devastated our ozone in 2022, new study reveals
In October of 2022, telescopes picked up a jet of high energy from a supernova that exploded 1.9 billion light-years away from Earth. This gamma-ray …
NASA pauses Mars Sample Return mission due to ongoing budget issues
NASA’s iconic mission to bring back samples of Martian soil and rocks has gone awry. The space agency shared that the Mars Sample Return mission …
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is spinning faster than we thought
A new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has proposed something quite intriguing. According to the authors of that …
NASA wants to send your name to deep space aboard the Europa Clipper
NASA wants to send your name to deep space. The move is part of an ongoing campaign that the space agency is calling “Message in …
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 …
James Webb discovery could help us understand how Earth formed
The James Webb space telescope has captured data that could help us better understand how Earth formed billions of years ago. According to the new …
Scientists created the first yeast with artificial DNA
Scientists have come one step closer to creating a synthetic yeast. For more than 15 years, researchers have worked tirelessly to build a complex cell …
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 …
New study claims Greenland glaciers are retreating twice as fast this century
A new study has revealed that Greenland glaciers are retreating twice as fast this century as the last. The revelation came after scientists compared new …
Scientists are using lice DNA to learn more about ancient human history
In what might be one of the grossest and most intriguing research cases I’ve read about this year, scientists have started using lice DNA to …
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 …
Nature retracts ground-breaking discovery of room-temperature superconductor
Back in March, a paper published in Nature posited that it was possible to create a near-ambient temperature superconductor. Now, several months after the study’s …
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 …
