Four Artemis II Astronauts to Receive America’s Highest Space Honor
A Record-Breaking Journey Earns a Historic Honor NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, became the first humans to travel around the Moon in more than half a century — and now they’re about to…
China’s Moon Mission Launches This Week to Hunt for Ice in Lunar Darkness
A Leap Into the Coldest Place in the Solar System China is poised to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole. The launch window opens…
A Half-Mile-Wide Asteroid Is Spinning So Fast It Should Have Shattered Long Ago
Astronomers have discovered a massive asteroid that should be tearing itself apart but isn’t. The 710-metre space rock, roughly the width of eight football fields, completes a full rotation every 1.88 minutes — a speed that would normally rip apart a loosely packed rubble-pile asteroid. Observations from the Rubin Observatory suggest the object must have rock-like internal cohesion to hold together at such speeds.
California’s Most Dangerous Fault Is Moving Faster Than Scientists Realized
New research from San Jose State University reveals that the San Andreas Fault is moving faster than scientists previously believed. The findings raise fresh questions about seismic risk in the region. Researchers shared details of their study, though the exact rate of slippage and its potential implications for earthquake hazards in the Bay Area are still being analyzed.
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Radar Antenna Survives 200 Simulated Landings Without Losing a Signal
A Tiny Antenna With a Big Job When the trio of NASA’s SkyFall helicopters takes to the Martian skies, one of their tasks will be to hunt for frozen water — a critical resource for future astronauts — using ground-penetrating radar. That sounds straightforward enough….
Newly Discovered Mega-Earth Baffles Scientists by Breaking the Rules of Planet Formation
A Planet That Shouldn’t Exist Astronomers have found a world that, by all conventional logic, shouldn’t look the way it does. The newly discovered exoplanet GJ 523b is unusually massive and dense, challenging conventional ideas about how rocky planets form. Called GJ 523b, the exoplanet…
SpaceX Rocket Left a 60-Foot Crater on the Moon After Uncontrolled Crash
A New Scar on the Lunar Surface The defunct upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed uncontrolled into the moon on Aug. 5 at an estimated 5,400 mph. It was a violent, silent collision — no one saw it happen in real time, and…
Ancient Cliff the Size of a Continent May Solve the Grand Canyon’s Greatest Mystery
A Billion Years of Missing History Stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon and you’re looking at one of Earth’s most extraordinary geological timelines — nearly two billion years of rock stacked in vivid, colorful layers. But there’s a catch. A mystery lies deep…
A Tiny Shark in Indonesia Could Solve One of the Ocean’s Greatest Mysteries
A Glimpse Into the Unknown It was late at night in Saleh Bay, Indonesia, when fishermen hauling in their lift-nets spotted something strange drifting near the surface — a pale, spotted shape far smaller than anything they had seen before. It was a whale shark,…
A Mother’s Age Leaves a Lasting Molecular Imprint on Her Children’s Cells
The Hidden Biological Clock That Affects the Next Generation In humans and many other animals, a mother’s age can affect the physical and behavioral characteristics of the next generation. Scientists call these changes maternal age effects, and while they are widespread across the animal kingdom,…
