9/23/23These Award-Winning Images Will Change the Way You See the Natural World18 stupendous shots of life put the beauty of Earth and its creatures in sharp relief.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 23, 2023
9/22/23Webb Telescope Spots Carbon on Jupiter’s Moon Europa, Boosting Prospects for Alien LifeThe carbon appears to have spilled out of the moon's subsurface oceans, rather than arriving via a meteorite or…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 22, 2023
9/21/23Telescope Spots a Sample-Laden OSIRIS-REx Returning From Asteroid BennuThe NASA spacecraft will return a sample from the distant asteroid to Earth on September 24.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 21, 2023
9/21/23Behold, Our Galaxy Visualized in Gravitational WavesA visualization of simulated data shows how ripples of spacetime might populate the Milky Way.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 21, 2023
9/20/23Oldest Suspected Wooden Structure Predates Modern HumansUnearthed in Zambia, the 476,000-year-old timber construction redefines our sense of early hominin ingenuity and…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 20, 2023
9/19/23Scientists Recover RNA From an Extinct Species for the First TimeA team of researchers managed to isolate and sequence century-old RNA from the thylacine, also known as the…ByIsaac SchultzUpdatedSeptember 19, 2023
9/19/23Parker Solar Probe Sails Directly Through Sun's Intense Plasma BurstThe intrepid little spacecraft flew through a coronal mass ejection, helping scientists understand space weather.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 19, 2023
9/19/23Journey Through the Cosmos With These Breathtaking Astronomy ImagesExplore the beauty of space with over 30 mesmerizing images, all handpicked from this year's Astronomy Photographer…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 19, 2023
9/18/23Upgraded Linear Accelerator in California Achieves First Light, Poised to Transform X-Ray ScienceLCLS-II will produce up to one million X-ray pulses per second and will be 10,000 times brighter than its…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 18, 2023
9/15/23Ig Nobel Prizes for Unusual Science Feature Fossil Lickers, ‘Stanford Toilet’, and Corpse Nose HairsThe annual awards for quirky scientific research were given out this week, and as usual, they blended the bizarre,…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 15, 2023
9/14/23Webb Telescope Data Confirms ‘Hubble Tension’ Is Not Hubble Telescope’s FaultThe newer space observatory found that the rate of the universe’s expansion is still not adding up.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 14, 2023
9/14/23Webb Telescope—Galactic Paparazzo—Scores Image of Young Star’s Bipolar JetThe space observatory’s latest target is one of the youngest known protostellar outflows.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 14, 2023
9/13/23Australian Radio Telescope Spots Possible ‘Polar Ring’ GalaxyThe galaxy appears to be surrounded by a halo of gas, dust, and stars.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 13, 2023
9/12/23Webb Telescope Sees Tantalizing Molecular Signals on Possible Water WorldDimethyl sulfide is only known to be produced by living things on Earth, but the signature requires further…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 12, 2023
9/12/23New Decadal Survey Spotlights Funding Gap in Promoting Human Life in SpaceNASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences needs more investment, according to top U.S. scientists.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 12, 2023
9/11/23How to Spot the Ephemeral Cometary Visitor NishimuraThe comet won’t return for over 400 years, and tomorrow morning is your best chance to witness this celestial…ByIsaac SchultzUpdatedSeptember 11, 2023
9/9/23MOXIE, NASA’s Oxygen-Producing Experiment on Mars, Ends OperationsThe project was designed to showcase on-site resource use on the Red Planet—and it did just that.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 9, 2023
9/8/23X-Ray Telescope Spots Black Hole Slowly Devouring a StarThe black hole devoured an equivalent of three Earth masses during its nine observed bites of the star over several…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 8, 2023
9/8/23Scientists Stumped by ‘Golden Orb’ From Seafloor That's ‘Biological in Origin’If you have any ideas, I’m sure NOAA would be eager to hear them.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 8, 2023
9/8/23Enhanced Space Access Means Remarkable New Science Is on the HorizonLevitating conveyor belts, asteroid spaceships, and crater telescopes, oh my!ByIsaac SchultzUpdatedSeptember 8, 2023