NASA appoints climate advisor to prioritize Earth science in Biden administration By Meghan Bartels Tackling the climate crisis is one of President Joe Biden's top priorities, and NASA has created a new role to match.
Could there be a cluster of antimatter stars orbiting our galaxy? By Paul Sutter We don't know why the universe is dominated by matter over antimatter, but there could be entire stars, and maybe even galaxies, in the universe made of antimatter.
Mystery of gamma radiation solved: Hidden cannibal star is just having dinner By Rafi Letzter The mystery at the heart of an unexplained, bright point of gamma-ray light in the sky has been solved: a violent, whirling redback.
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission snaps its 1st photo of Red Planet By Andrew Jones China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft snapped its first image of Mars as the mission makes its final approach; the probe will enter orbit around the Red Planet in less than a week.
Superpowerful 'oscillon' particles could have dominated the infant universe, then vanished By Paul Sutter A weird, super-powerful particle that's not truly a particle could have dominated the universe when it was just a second old, releasing a flood of ripples that permeated all of space-time.
Scientists narrow down the 'weight' of dark matter trillions of trillions of times By Tom Metcalfe Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter — the almost imperceptible material said to tug on everything, yet emit no light — really weighs.
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A giant black hole suddenly went dark, and no one knows why By Rafi Letzter In 2018, one of the brightest X-ray lights in the sky went dark, and scientists still aren't sure why.
2nd SpaceX 'Starship' explodes during landing test By Rafi Letzter SpaceX tested one of its giant, silver "Starship" prototypes Tuesday (Feb. 2). And for the second time in two months, it exploded on landing.
100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called 'Seven Sisters' By Adam Mann A speculative hypothesis tries to uncover the world’s oldest story written across the night sky in the Pleiades constellation.
Apollo 15 landing site is strikingly clear in image captured from Earth By Nicoletta Lanese Scientists used powerful radar signals to capture the image.
Chinese researchers to send an 'uncrackable' quantum message to space By Rafi Letzter It's now possible to send uncrackable quantum messages through thin air, and the people who figured out how to do it are getting ready to send the messages into space.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is in the home stretch of its journey to Red Planet By Mike Wall The car-size Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30 of last year, is scheduled to land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18.
Earth is about to lose its second moon, forever By Brandon Specktor Minimoon SO 2020, a rocket booster that has been orbiting Earth for about 60 years, will drift off forever next month.
Here's how to watch the full 'wolf moon' this week By Laura Geggel Here's how to see January's full moon, whether or not there is a clear night sky.
Famous alien-hunting telescope collapsed in December. Now, investigators might know why. By Meghan Bartels An ongoing investigation of the December collapse of the iconic radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico offers early evidence a manufacturing issue may have contributed to the failure.
Mysterious 'kick' just after the Big Bang may have created dark matter By Paul Sutter A mysterious "kick" in the early universe may have produced more matter than antimatter. And that imbalance may have also led to the creation of dark matter, researchers now say.
NASA finds 'Lost Galaxy' shining out of Virgo's bosom By Brandon Specktor This hazy spiral galaxy is one of the largest in the Virgo cluster — a collection of more than 2,000 galaxies.
