Space
A month’s worth of cool science stories, summed up.
Scientists argue that Deimos’ tilted orbit owes to a Martian ring that disintegrated billions of years ago.
Bacteria and yeast can survive under hydrogen in the lab, which may mean more planets could support extraterrestrial life.
It’s one of NASA’s longest-living and most valuable telescopes, sending back amazing space images to Earth for decades.
Puzzling planets with the apparent density of cotton candy probably have rings, according to a new study.
The space agency’s InSight lander has detected hundreds of marsquakes since arriving on the red planet about 15 months ago.
We honor the spacecraft’s 16-year journey with five beautiful images from the telescope.
That’s when the two stars in the binary system V Sagittae are set to merge in a spectacularly luminous fashion.
Upcoming cool science stories for 2020.
Enjoy ginormous candy canes, stellar glitter, and visiting (interstellar) neighbors this month.
Refined instruments reduce noise at the quantum level, allowing for discoveries of more distant gravitational waves.
Marvel at the lives and deaths of stars across the universe.