ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceRest in Peace, InSight: Scientists Pay Tribute to the Mars LanderNASA announced that the InSight mission is officially over after the probe failed to respond to pings.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 21, 2022Comments (5)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceNASA Study Reveals Strange Temperature Patterns in Jupiter's Atmosphere40 years of data show seemingly related temperature fluctuations thousands of miles apart in the planet's…ByKevin HurlerPublishedDecember 20, 2022Comments (2)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceThe InSight Mars Lander Mission May Finally Be OverThe lander did not respond to pings from NASA after months of dwindling power.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 20, 2022Comments (6)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceFollow Along With NASA's First Deep Space Biology ExperimentBioSentinel will test the effects of cosmic radiation on living organisms during long-term spaceflight.ByKevin HurlerPublishedDecember 16, 2022Comments (2)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceThe Best Photos From Mars in 2022The coolest images of (and on) the Red Planet taken in the last year show craters, funky rocks, and human trash.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 16, 2022Comments (8)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceCall James Cameron: Two Distant Planets Could Be Filled With WaterExoplanets spotted by Hubble Space Telescope seem to be a whole lot wetter than Earth.ByKevin HurlerPublishedDecember 16, 2022Comments (17)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceJupiter's Moon Io Is Glowing With Volcanoes in New Image From NASA ProbeThe Juno spacecraft captured this view of hundreds of volcanic hotspots, which help create auroras on Jupiter.ByKevin HurlerPublishedDecember 15, 2022Comments (7)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceMicrophone on NASA Rover Records Large Dust Devil on MarsA particulate-filled whirlwind swept right over the Perseverance rover, providing some fortuitous scientific data.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 13, 2022Comments (2)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Telescope Reveals a Luminous Stellar Crime SceneThe ethereal Southern Ring Nebula may have emerged from a dance party gone wrong between stars.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 8, 2022Comments (1)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceConstruction Begins on World’s Biggest Radio Telescope, Set to Observe the 'Epoch of Reionization'The intercontinental Square Kilometer Array will comprise thousands of dishes to image vast swathes of the sky.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 5, 2022Comments (6)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Telescope Turns Its Eye on Saturn's Mysterious Moon TitanThe moon's clouds and a bit of its surface are visible in new views from the space-based observatory.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 2, 2022Comments (6)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAn Ancient Asteroid Impact May Have Caused a Megatsunami on MarsMaps of the Martian surface suggest something big hit the planet 3.4 billion years ago.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 1, 2022Comments (8)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceRemembering the Arecibo Observatory Dish, Two Years After Its CollapseThe damaged astronomy site faces an uncertain future.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 1, 2022Comments (11)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceBright Flash Detected in February Was a Black Hole Jet Pointed Straight at EarthThe jet is from the most distant tidal disruption event yet observed.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 30, 2022Comments (15)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceHubble Telescope Observes Surreal Galactic CollisionThe merging galaxies, heavily distorted by gravity, have formed an unusual celestial ring.ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedNovember 25, 2022Comments (4)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Telescope Reveals Noxious Atmosphere of a Planet 700 Light-Years AwayWASP-39b is a hot Saturn with some nasty chemicals in its skies.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 22, 2022Comments (9)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpacePlay With an Interactive Map of the Observable UniverseYou can scroll back in time, from more recent galaxies to the most ancient light sources.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 22, 2022Comments (2)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceSpace Rock Strike on Webb Telescope Was Just Bad Luck, NASA Team SaysThe analysis quells fears that the telescope will suffer frequent micrometeoroid hits.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 21, 2022Comments (15)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceSee an Exclusive Clip From Good Night Oppy, a New Doc About the Mars Rover That Defied the OddsA documentary streaming on Amazon Prime Video tells the very human story of two robots on Mars.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 20, 2022Comments (2)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Telescope Sees Two of the Most Ancient Galaxies YetA deeper look through a massive cluster has turned up two galaxies that formed just after the cosmic dawn.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 17, 2022Save