In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.
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Earth, the only rocky planet with a large, massive satellite, is greatly affected by the Moon. Destroying it would cause 7 major changes.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
Peaking on the night of August 11/12, up to 100 bright meteors per hour will be visible. Here’s how to make the most of it.
Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
60% of all potentially dangerous asteroids remain undetected.
Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.
A surprising JWST discovery around Fomalhaut has a different, superior explanation: not a great dust cloud, but a mere background object.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.
The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
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65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble’s still going after 32 years. Here’s the amazing proof!
A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.
Teller and Sagan debated fiercely over nuclear proliferation. But was the conflict as personal as it was intellectual for Teller?