Space

Space

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter’s Moon Io

ByKiona Smith

Loki Patera is like no place on Earth.

Space

A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild

ByKiona Smith

A massive star in M82 lived fast, died young, and left an extremely magnetic corpse.

Science

Look! 3.7 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal The Oldest Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

Our planet was a different place when these rocks formed.

Space

Voyager 1 Just Sent Its First Coherent Message Back to NASA In Months

ByKiona Smith

A clever programming fix has cured the spacecraft's electronic aphasia.

Space

Look Up! April’s Full Pink Moon Is Finally Here

ByKiona Smith

Blue Moons aren't really blue, and the Pink Moon isn't really pink, but at least the full Moon is really full.

Space

Physicists Just Mapped A Stellar, Galactic Burp of Astronomical Proportions

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

“That’s a lot of gas!”

space

The Solar System’s Most Volcanic Moon Has Been This Way For Billions Of Years

ByKiona Smith

A recent study confirms that Io has always been a landscape of fiery lava and violent volcanic eruptions.

Space

Can NASA's Mars Sample Return Program Be Saved? Some Experts Think So

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

The quest continues to bring pristine Mars rocks to Earth.

Space

Look! A Black Hole 33 Times More Massive Than Our Sun Was Hiding In Plain Sight

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

Astronomers just discovered the largest black hole in our galaxy. It was forged by a dead star.

News

Christopher Nolan’s 'Interstellar' is About to Get a Much-Deserved Reappraisal

ByLyvie Scott

On its 10th anniversary, Nolan’s angsty sci-fi epic returns to theaters.