What a Misplaced Meteorite Told Us About Mars

11 million years ago, Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now.…

Uranus is Getting Colder and Now We Know Why

Uranus is an oddball among the Solar System’s planets. While most planets’ axis of rotation is…

Sun-Like Stars Around Black Holes: What Gives?

Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These…

How Scientists Repurposed a Camera on ESA’s Mars Express Mission

A camera aboard the Mars Express orbiter finds a new lease on life. Sometimes, limitations can…

SpIRIT CubeSat Demonstrates a Operational Gamma and X-Ray Detector

CubeSats are becoming more and more capable, and it seems like every month, another CubeSat is…

Starship (and Donald Trump) Make a Splash at Sixth Flight Test

SpaceX’s Starship launch system went through its sixth flight test today, and although the Super Heavy…

The Strange Pulsar at the Center of the Crab Nebula

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we all have a vivid image of the Crab Nebula…

The Biggest Black Holes May Start From The Tiniest Seeds

The existence of gigantic black holes in the very early universe challenges our assumptions of how…

China’s Proposed Cargo Shuttle, the Haolong, Has Entered Development

The 2024 China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition was held in Zhuhai last week – from…

Up to a Third of Stars Ate Some of their Planets

In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques to measure the metal content of stars with extreme…