New results presented at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference could change our approach to Mars exploration. Scientists studying…
We've come a long way since gamma rays were discovered. The late 1800s and early 1900s were a time of…
Black holes are the most massive objects that we know of in the Universe. Not stellar mass black holes, not…
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Quaoar is one of about 3,000 dwarf planets in our Solar System's Kuiper Belt. Astronomers discovered it in 2002. It's…
Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can't see them. But we can observe their immediate surroundings and learn…
The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with life and adorned with glittering seas,…
The JWST is having a problem. One of its instruments, the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS,) has gone…
Tractor beams make intuitive sense. Matter and energy interact with each other in countless ways throughout the Universe. Magnetism and…
The Artemis program intends to put humans on the Moon for the first time since NASA's Apollo missions. But Artemis…