Space
A Planet So Hot Its Water Falls Apart Has Different Weather at Dawn and Dusk
For four and a half hours, a planet 880 light years away slid across the face of its star, and as it slid, it turned.
Jun 10, 2026
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Space
A Rock the Size of Several City Blocks Will Pass Closer Than Your TV Satellite in 2029
On Friday 13 April 2029, something will happen that has not happened in recorded human history.
May 11, 2026
Space
Two Tiny Galaxies Have Black Holes That Should Not Exist. JWST Is Explaining Why
The stars don't lie. That's the operating assumption behind decades of work by Monica Valluri, a research professor at the University of Michigan who has spent…
Apr 6, 2026
Space
A Four-Legged Robot Just Showed How to Search for Life on Mars 3X Faster
The robot's arm descends toward a pale, flat rock. Twelve centimeters. Eight. Five.
Mar 31, 2026
Space
The Galaxy That Taught Us How to Read the Chemical Autobiography of the Universe
NGC 1365 hangs in the Fornax Cluster roughly 60 million light-years away, a great barred spiral with two curving arms and a bright, turbulent core: just the sort of galaxy you'd flip past in an atlas without stopping.
Mar 23, 2026
Space
Webb Rules Out Moon Impact by Near-Earth Asteroid in 2032
On the night of 18 February, engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at an almost empty patch of sky and waited.
Mar 6, 2026
Space
Solar Superstorm Triggered the Biggest Electron Flood Ever Recorded at Mars
Ten minutes. That's all the warning Mars Express had before the X-rays arrived. On the morning of 15 May 2024, while half of Earth was still sharing aurora…
Mar 5, 2026
Space
Star Formation Breaks Its Own Rules at the Centre of the Milky Way
A vast new radio telescope mosaic of the galaxy's turbulent core is forcing astronomers to rethink where and why stars form — and has already thrown up one object nobody can explain.
Feb 25, 2026
Space
Hubble Witnesses Cosmic Demolition Derby
Astronomers thought they'd found an exoplanet. For years, a bright dot called Fomalhaut b orbited a nearby star, reflecting starlight through clouds of dust.
Dec 19, 2025
Space
Mars Orbiter Finds Rock, Not Water, Under South Polar Ice
A new analysis from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, published in Geophysical Research Letters, suggests the bright radar signal beneath Mars' south…
Dec 1, 2025
Space
Greedy Baby Black Hole Is Outgrowing Its Galaxy
A supermassive black hole spotted just 570 million years after the Big Bang is growing faster than its host galaxy can keep up, defying astronomers' expectations about how the early universe assembled itself.
Nov 19, 2025
Space
Evidence Mounts That Cosmic Expansion Is Slowing Already
The headline finding is stark enough to stop a cosmologist mid scroll. A new analysis of Type Ia supernova data, corrected for a subtle but powerful age bias, says the universe may already have shifted from accelerating to decelerating expansion.
Nov 7, 2025
Space
Spooky Cosmic Bat Unfurls Its Wings Over Chile
High above the Atacama Desert, a crimson apparition stretches across the night sky.
Oct 31, 2025
Space
A Growing Dent In Earths Shield Over The Atlantic
A quiet dent in Earths invisible shield keeps spreading across the South Atlantic.
Oct 13, 2025