Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the…
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Super-fast impacts may have made Venus an uninhabitable hellhole
Collisions with high-speed space rocks in Venus’s early history could have melted most of the planet’s…
Large deposits of water found on Mars below the surface at the equator
Previous discoveries of water on Mars were limited to the poles or deep underground, but water…
Perseverance Mars rover uncovers the watery history of Jezero crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found rocks near its landing site at Jezero crater with a surprising…
Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy
Intricate patterns in the movements of millions of stars are revealing the history of our home…
2021 in review: Space tourism begins – for billionaires, anyway
A flurry of short flights aboard privately funded craft saw space tourism begin with a bang…
2021 in review: Three different missions land on Mars
Over the course of just 10 days in February, three missions arrived at Mars. Together, they…
My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona
While teaching solar physics this year, I was once again drawn in by the mystery of…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
A spacecraft designed to study the sun up close has entered its upper atmosphere for the…
Apollo 17 rock sample hints the moon cooled faster than we thought
A rock sample collected from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has been…