Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet lensing light from a distant source J. Skowron/OGLE Nearly 10,000…
Calendar of space events 2026
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Are Uranus and Neptune rock giants and not ice giants?
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Dwarf planet Ceres discovered 225 years ago today
Dwarf planet Ceres’ Occator crater in false color showing surface composition via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/…
What Stranger Things gets right about wormholes : NPR
This computer illustration shows an Einstein-Rosen bridge, also known as a wormhole. Wormholes feature heavily in…
Long-duration M7.1 solar flare erupts from AR 4324
A Type IV and Type II (estimated velocity of 893 km/s) radio emissions were associated with…
Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one
Supermassive black holes occasionally devour or merge with other black holes MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Three…
Curiosity Sends Holiday Postcard from Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of…
Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago is found again
An image captured by a telescope at the Grasslands Observatory in Arizona. The “x” is where…
The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished
It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and…