The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.
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Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, matter can escape the center of the Earth.
Yes, NASA’s Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean anything in the search for life.
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth’s specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.
The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.
National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.
How did the troughs form?
Do you think you know the Solar System? Here’s a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
“The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts.”