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This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.
Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
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.
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Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
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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?
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
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.
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 structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
Teller and Sagan debated fiercely over nuclear proliferation. But was the conflict as personal as it was intellectual for Teller?
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.