How Hydrogen Kept Early Mars Warm

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and…

Fireball over Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan confirmed as Starlink satellite debris

A dazzling fireball later identified as debris of Starlink satellite #5693 streaked across the Midwest night…

A Balloon Mission That Could Explore Venus Indefinitely

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We’ve reported before on the…

The Building Blocks for Life Found in Asteroid Bennu Samples

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the…

These Bizarre Features on Mars are Caused by Carbon Dioxide Geysers

Though it’s a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This…

Science Points Out Paths to Interplanetary Adventures

What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus’ atmosphere? Explore the…

Communicating with Gravitational Waves – Universe Today

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window…

Soccer field-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 has 1 in 83 chance of impacting Earth in 2032

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was detected at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile on…

Machine Learning Could Have Predicted the Powerful Solar Storms in 2024

To the casual observer, the Sun seems to be the one constant and never changing. The…

Juno Sees a Massive Hotspot of Volcanic Activity on Io

New images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft make Io’s nature clear. It’s the most volcanically active world…