Earth’s Secret Advantage: Why Most Alien Worlds May Be Too Dry for Life
This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of…
Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused…
Mars has air, but almost none of it can keep you alive
For all the drama around getting to Mars, the harder question starts after landing. A person can step…
Scientists Found Literal Ink From Ballpoint Pens in Martian Meteorites
Stuff from Mars often makes headlines for a variety of reasons, but here’s something that you’ve probably never…
Here’s What Scientists Found When They Cooked Up Their Own ‘Mercury Rocks’
When studying Venus and Mars, Earth’s neighbors in the inner solar system, scientists often rely on what we…
Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do
The astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission will see more of the Moon’s far side by eye than…
Lightning bolts on Jupiter are up to 100 times stronger than Earth’s
On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual…
NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and…
Asteroid Bennu’s Rugged Surface Baffled NASA, We Finally Know Why
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be…
C.12 FAIMM Correction, Q&A update, and Webinar Materials Available
C.12 Foundational Artificial Intelligence for the Moon and Mars (FAIMM) is intended to enable individual researchers to participate…
Earth’s distance from the Sun found to dramatically alter seasons
A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for…
What is an exoplanet? Why they are vital for finding alien life
Scientists might have just found Earth’s icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light years away. HD 137010…