A Giant Hexagon Has Been Spinning at Saturn’s North Pole for Decades. Now, Scientists Found Its Twin
When NASA’s Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn in 1980, it spotted something unlike anything scientists had seen before:…
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
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Lunar legacy: U of A researchers building moon-bound camera
Even the smallest of shadows on the moon’s surface can harbor water ice and other chemical compounds, known…
Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening…
One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide…
Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight
Theoretically, the Sun shares its chemical origins with meteorites that are billions of years old. But for decades,…
Near-Earth asteroid not an asteroid at all
Anyone can mistake an identity, even astronomers. On August 28, 2025, researchers aimed their equipment towards an area…
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…
New Horizons Wakes Up, Prepares for ‘Termination Shock’
NASA’s Pluto probe has woken up and is on its way to slipping out of the sun’s…