Mars’ “tilt streaks” revealed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2017. These large, colorless features were previously thought to indicate the presence of flowing water. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) A new analysis using artificial intelligence (AI) suggests that mysterious…
(Image courtesy of Vadim Sadovsky via Shutterstock) The Big Bang is commonly thought of as the explosive beginning of the universe—the single moment when space, time, and matter came into being. But what if that wasn’t a beginning at all?…
This artist’s impression shows what the giant planet TOI-6894b might look like orbiting its red dwarf star. (Image credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick) Scientists have discovered a colossal planet on which, according to the main theories of planet formation, life…
New calculations indicate there are an unknown number of asteroids orbiting Venus that are capable of destroying cities and could pose a threat to our planet in the future. (Image credit: Getty Images) A hidden swarm of space objects known…
This artist’s impression shows the early Martian environment (right) with liquid water and a thicker atmosphere, in contrast to the cold, dry environment seen today (left). (Image courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) After nearly a decade in orbit,…
An artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole with an ejecta jet moving at close to the speed of light. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Despite huge costs, long construction times, and cuts in federal science funding by the Trump administration, physicists…
(Image source: Image data: NASA Image processing: Tanya Oleksuik CC BY NC SA 3.0) The White House is set to slash NASA’s budget and workforce and cancel several key missions next year, newly released documents show. On May 2, the…
The full moon of June, nicknamed the “Strawberry Moon,” rises over the fire lookout tower. (Photo credit: Marcos del Maso via Getty Images) Stargazers, get ready for a spectacle: the full Strawberry Moon is coming soon! This will be the…
Andromeda (left) and the Milky Way (right) are predicted to collide within the next 8 billion years, changing both galaxies forever. New research suggests our galaxy may escape that fate. (Image courtesy of NASA Goddard) A recent study found that…
(Image credit: R. Kamlach et al., 2025) Stunning new images of the solar surface provide a unique opportunity to observe violent sunspots and activity on the Sun. A completely new high-resolution camera system developed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics…
(Image credit: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute) / INAF / F. Onori) Astronomers have carefully studied a unique and extremely destructive cosmic phenomenon that occurred when an unfortunate star wandered too close to a supermassive black hole. The…
“Coronal rain” — seen here with the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory — occurs when hot plasma in the sun’s corona cools and becomes denser. It is pulled toward the surface by gravity. (Credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF)…