The Sun’s outer atmosphere is roughly 200 times hotter than its visible surface
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
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A comet from another star system arrived in our solar system in July 2025 carrying water ice from a planetary system that formed billions…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Voyager 1 is whispering back to Earth with a radio transmitter about as powerful as a refrigerator light bulb, from roughly 16 billion…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
In 2016, SpaceX said it would land an uncrewed spacecraft on Mars as soon as 2018. In 2017, Musk moved the first cargo landings to 2022. In…
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Einstein added a cosmological constant to his equations in 1917, later regarded it as one of his great mistakes, and physicists resurrected…
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Scientists thought Titan was hiding a global ocean beneath its frozen crust
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
The Sun's magnetic field flips every 11 years, a turnover so fast that current models struggle to explain how its magnetic flux dissipates…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars dozens of times since 2012, including a spike of 21 parts per billion in 2019. Europe's…
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026
Apollo 13's crew timed a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch in April 1970 after the lunar module's main guidance computer had…
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Before John Glenn would climb into the capsule that made him the first American to orbit Earth, he asked NASA to have one specific person…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 13, 2026
About 2,000 light-years away, a Jupiter-sized planet completes a full year in under eight hours, orbiting so close to the collapsed star it…
By Lab Report · Aug 13, 2026
From space, the Sun is white — the yellow colour we see from Earth is our own atmosphere scattering away blue wavelengths, the same physics…
By The Long View · Aug 12, 2026