Hear the 1st sounds from China's Mars rover Zhurong (Video) By Tariq Malik China's first Mars rover has captured its first sounds of the Red Planet and beamed back stunning views of a drive on the dusty world.
Take a tour of the synchrotron, where electrons reach near light-speed By How It Works magazine, Robert Jones Find out how the U.K.'s largest laboratory can accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light.
Mystery explosion 1,000 years ago may be a rare, third type of supernova By Brandon Specktor Astronomers have found evidence of a rare electron-capture supernova for the first time, which could help solve a 1,000-year-old space mystery.
Mars may have dozens of lakes beneath its south pole By Mike Wall Much more liquid water may lie beneath Mars' south pole than scientists had thought — or there may be something going on down there that they don't fully understand.
Largest objects ever get cooled down to their ‘quantum limit’ By Ben Turner The researchers hope to use their apparatus to probe why large objects do not exhibit quantum effects.
Giant ghostly 'hand' stretches through space in new X-ray views By Mike Wall An enormous, ghostly hand stretches through the depths of space, its wispy fingers pressing against a glowing cloud. It sounds like something out of sci-fi, but it's quite real.
Did a comet strike 13,000 years ago change human civilization as we know it? By Chelsea Gohd Could a devastating comet impact in Earth's distant past have forever changed human civilization?
How fast does the Earth move? By JoAnna Wendel Our planet is constantly moving, racing around the sun and spinning on its axis. But how fast does it move?
These tiny indestructible tardigrades will reveal how to survive in extremes of space By Elizabeth Howell Indestructible tardigrades will be subject to a series of experiments at the International Space Station to reveal how they survive in extreme environments.
Already-weird galaxy found to have oddly little dark matter By Rahul Rao Astronomers may not know what dark matter is, but they do know that galaxies are supposed to contain a lot of the shadowy, invisible substance.
Why does outer space look black? By Tiffany Means Several cosmic characteristics, including the lack of an atmosphere, lend space its dark color.
A beginner's guide to time travel By Andrew May, How It Works magazine Learn exactly how Einstein's theory of relativity works, and discover how there's nothing in science that says time travel is impossible.
Never-before-seen colossal comet on a trek toward the sun By Stephanie Pappas Only one week after astronomers noticed a moving object in the sky, they've identified it as a long-periodicity comet from the Oort Cloud.
NASA spacecraft spots China's Mars rover Zhurong heading south on Red Planet (photo) By Mike Wall China's first-ever Mars rover was on the move earlier this month, imagery by a NASA spacecraft shows.
Could there be a link between interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua and unidentified aerial phenomena? By Avi Loeb If some UAP turn out to be extraterrestrial technology, they could be dropping sensors for a subsequent craft to tune into. What if ‘Oumuamua is such a craft?
Boiling 'baby bubble' where stars are born comes into view By Stephanie Pappas A gorgeous new image of Westerlund 2 shows a birthplace of new stars in the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.
Aliens in 1,700 star systems could have seen civilization emerge on Earth By Nicoletta Lanese If aliens are out there, are any of them looking at us?
This 'charming' particle could have saved the universe By Ben Turner The charm meson could answer why there's more matter than antimatter in the universe.
Venus has a gooey flowing mantle jostling crust chunks on its surface By Doris Elin Salazar Venus may still be geologically active today, which could mean that Earth's planetary sibling is a good place for scientists to learn about early Earth and faraway worlds.
Scientists spot earliest-known supermassive black hole 'storm' By Mike Wall Scientists have found the earliest known "storm" generated by a supermassive black hole, a discovery that could shed considerable light on the coevolution of galaxies and their central black holes.
