We just got our best views yet of the eerie alien aurora on Mars. The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter,...
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Comets are boozy beasts. They come in here to the inner Solar System from goodness-knows-where (the outer Solar System), get...
Vast filaments of intergalactic gas are the highways along which galaxies are hurtling towards a certain collision. In new, extremely...
In 2018, scientists made a discovery that could change our understanding of the dusty, dry red ball that is Mars....
The risk of death from an encounter with a shark may be grossly exaggerated in popular culture, but that’s likely...
When New Horizons approached Pluto in 2015, it gave us something wondrous: the clearest view we’d ever seen of the...
In the yawning vacuum of intergalactic space, something large is lurking. Not a galaxy, although it’s of a comparable size:...
Gravitational wave astronomy has just given us another amazing gift: the first observational confirmation of one of Stephen Hawking‘s predictions...
A dead star the size of the Moon is the smallest of its kind we’ve ever seen. It’s a white...
More than 120,000 years ago in the Levant, Homo sapiens lived side-by-side with a type of ancient human we didn’t...
If there were alien civilizations in other star systems, would they be able to detect our presence here on Earth?...
Venus may be a toxic hell-planet, but new evidence suggests it might have more in common than Earth than we...
