NASA’s Viking 2 landed on Mars in 1976. It detected 2 possible marsquakes, on sols 53…
Category: Earth Sky
Did comets seed life on Earth? A new study says — probably not
View larger. | Did comets seed life on Earth? That’s been the leading theory for the…
Do black holes split into smaller black holes?
Can a black hole split into 2 or more smaller holes? A new theoretical study says…
New dwarf planet discovered by Rubin?
The new dwarf planet candidate ED138, discovered with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, orbits beyond Neptune.…
Is this our solar system’s future? Scientists spot disk around dead star
Is this our solar system’s future? At the center of this artist’s impression is a white…
Origins of Uranus and Neptune are surprisingly different
View larger. | NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft captured these views of Uranus and Neptune in the…
Better than Earth? Scientists wonder
Artist’s illustration of a super-Earth type exoplanet close to its red dwarf star. Some of these…
Is the Mars Grand Canyon still tectonically active?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the view over Valles Marineris, aka the Grand Canyon of…
Lucy mission to Trojan asteroids: 5 years of discoveries
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the Lucy spacecraft making a close flyby of an asteroid.…
Why does anything exist? New theory emerges
Why does anything exist? Physicists are puzzled that matter and antimatter didn’t annihilate each other soon…