2/6/23Webb Telescope Spots a Small Asteroid From 62 Million Miles AwayThe roughly Colosseum-sized rock marks a new kind of target for Webb Space Telescope.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 6, 2023Save
2/6/23Curiosity Rover Finds Foot-Long Meteorite on Martian SurfaceThe rock, dubbed Cacao, is made of iron and nickel, NASA says.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 6, 2023Save
2/3/23Perseverance Rover Captures Ominous Sign of Mars’ Impending Cloudy SeasonThe NASA rover is approaching its second year on Mars (in Earth time), and there are overcast days ahead.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 3, 2023Save
2/3/23Scientists Discover Amorphous Ice That's Weirdly Similar to Liquid WaterThe team "shook the ice like crazy" to create a previously unknown form of H2O.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 3, 2023Save
2/2/23Hubble Telescope Directly Measures a White Dwarf Mass for the First TimeThe white dwarf is the dead core of a star that burned out a billion years ago.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 2, 2023Save
2/1/23New Map Shows All the Matter in the UniverseThe universe’s stuff is less clumpy than previously thought, according to new research.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 1, 2023Save
2/1/23Cut Marks on 125,000-Year-Old Bones Suggest Neanderthals Butchered Giant ElephantsOur extinct sister species was hunting and butchering big game, according to new research.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 1, 2023Save
1/31/23Webb Telescope Captures Countless Galaxies in New ImageThe latest shot in the space telescope’s portfolio is a piercing gaze into a distant part of the sky.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 31, 2023Save
1/31/23Perseverance Completes Its Sample Depot After 2 Years on MarsOne of the NASA rover’s main jobs was to collect rock samples for eventual shipment to Earth.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 31, 2023Save
1/31/23‘De-Extinction’ Company Will Try to Bring Back the DodoColossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth—an ambitious agenda, considering no…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 31, 2023Save
1/30/23NASA Team to Investigate Recurring Problem With Juno Orbiter CameraIt’s not the first time the spacecraft has had issues with its imaging instrument.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 30, 2023Save
1/25/23Check Out This Perfect Bear's Face on the Surface of MarsA Mars satellite snapped this uncanny image of a rock formation.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 25, 2023Save
1/25/23Webb Telescope Spectrograph Suffers Software GlitchA communications delay timed out the instrument’s flight software, and some planned observations will have to be…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 25, 2023Save
1/24/23Huge Trash Buildup Totally Covers Section of Balkan RiverThe Drina river is drowning in 350,000 cubic feet of garbage.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 24, 2023Save
1/24/23New Scans Reveal 2,300-Year-Old Mummy Boy and His Gold TreasuresThe golden tokens and footwear were intended to ease the body’s transition into the afterlife.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 24, 2023Save
1/23/2312 of the Weirdest X-Plane DesignsBoth bizarre and badass, these experimental planes tested new strategies for flight.ByIsaac SchultzUpdatedJanuary 31, 2023Save
1/23/23Webb Finds the ‘Deepest, Coldest Ices to Date’ in Distant Molecular CloudThe ingredients for young stars were spotted about 630 light-years from Earth.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 23, 2023Save
1/21/23How to See the ‘Green Comet’ Everyone’s Talking AboutThe glowing space rock E3 is about to make its closest approach to Earth in 50,000 years.ByIsaac SchultzUpdatedJanuary 31, 2023Save
1/19/23It's Getting Harder and Harder to See the StarsA new analysis of citizen science reports indicates that light pollution is intensifying around the world.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 19, 2023Save
1/19/23NASA and Boeing Are Developing a Greener Passenger AirplaneThe space agency awarded Boeing for its truss-braced wing design, which could improve fuel efficiency in the air.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 19, 2023Save