Mars’ tilt is currently comparable to Earth’s. However, millions of years ago, its axis shifted significantly, possibly causing a catastrophic water leak. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A new study suggests that dramatic changes in the tilt of Mars’s spin axis over…
Astronomers identified the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on July 1. This is one of the first images of the object. (Image credit: ATLAS/University of Hawaii/NASA) Our solar system has an unexpected visitor that is currently moving towards us at high speed,…
An artist’s impression of our Milky Way. (Image credit: ESO Calçada) Astronomers have reported new evidence that our planet and the Milky Way galaxy are located inside a vast void that is distorting our observations of space. A bold proposal…
The “cosmic owl” as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Each “eye” represents an active galactic nucleus, and the “beak” is where stars are being born. (Image courtesy of Lee et al.) Who is it? Simply the “Cosmic Owl,”…
A false-color photograph of the Moon, compiled from 15 images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft during its flyby on December 8, 1992. But what color is moonlight really? (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Blue moons, blood moons, and honey moons have all…
July’s full Buck Moon will be one of the lowest of the year and the farthest from the Sun. (Image credit: Getty Images) The first full moon of the Northern Hemisphere’s astronomical summer is about to appear. Known as the…
On the left is Mercury as seen by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft. On the right is an approximation of Mercury’s true color as seen by the human eye. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) Most meteorites…
The Bullet Cluster spins and sparkles in this merged image from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC) What is it: A cluster of bullets Location: 3.7 billion light years…
An illustration of the known dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with Charon, Hydra, Myx, Kerberos, and Styx), Eris (with Dysnomia), Makemake, Ceres, and Haumea (with Hiaka and Namaka). (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via…
This week’s science news covers an interstellar visitor and the oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever sequenced. (Image credit: David Rankin/Catalina Sky Survey/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) Jump to: Let’s start with this week’s science news, where our solar system has…
An illustration of The Exploration Company’s Nyx spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere. (Image credit: The Exploration Company/ESA) Since the launch of the first satellite (Sputnik 1) on October 4, 1957, we have sent many interesting payloads into space. As access to…
A composite image of South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, with majestic cosmic bubbles of radio energy in the background. A similar array, known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000, has been proposed for the Utah desert. (Image credit: South African…