Space
NASA's InSight Lander May Have Just Sent Us Its Last Photo of Mars
"If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will—but I’ll be signing off here soon," NASA said in a tweet from the lander's perspective.
Decades of Jupiter Observations Have Revealed Something Strange
40 years of observing the biggest planet in the solar system has revealed "things we never anticipated," a new study says.
Wind Power on Mars Can Power Human Habitats, Scientists Discover
What will power humanity's future Mars bases? The red planet's wind is strong enough to do the job in some locations, a new study says.
NASA Recorded the Sound of Being Caught Inside a 400-Foot-Tall Martian Dust Devil
NASA's Perseverance rover captured the first audio recording of dust devil on Mars, revealing amazing new insights about these whirlwinds.
Rare Antimatter From Distant Space Reaches Earth and Can Help Find Dark Matter, Scientists Discover
Antimatter can travel thousands of light years to Earth, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider found, opening an avenue for detecting dark matter.
Scientists Gain Unprecedented Look at Infernal ‘Hell World’ In Space
55 Cancri e appears to have a deadly surface made entirely of lava, but understanding it could help us find more habitable planets.
A Mind-Blowing Experiment Just Showed How Life's Ingredients Formed in Outer Space
Life's origins may lie in outer space, and a lab experiment just confirmed how it could happen.
Scientists Propose New, Faster Method of Interstellar Space Travel
The new concept for faster travel to other solar systems would see humanity take flight to the stars similar to how birds soar on Earth.
Scientists Propose Mind-Bending Plan to Look for Dark Matter, New Physics Near the Sun
The "SpaceQ" mission proposes sending spacecraft loaded with quantum clocks to explore what strange things are bound to our Sun.
A Huge Satellite Is Now One of the Brightest Objects In the Sky, Astronomers Warn
The BlueWalker 3 satellite now out-shines all but the brightest stars and “could severely hamper progress in our understanding of the cosmos.”
Mars Had an Ancient Asteroid Impact Like the One That Killed the Dinosaurs, Scientists Discover
The findings mean NASA may have stumbled upon signs of alien life on its first trip to Mars in 1976.
Scientists Spot Black Hole Energy Beam as Bright as 1,000 Trillion Suns Pointed at Earth
So-called relativistic jets of energetic particles are stunning, destructive spectacles, and this one was "unprecedented."