Astronomers studying a well-known supernova have found unusually high levels of key chemical elements tied to life, reshaping long-standing ideas about how planets and biology gain their essential ingredients.
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In the era of giant telescopes and missions to Mars, space myths still persist and are repeated as truths. From the “visible” Great Wall of China to the famous 10% of the brain, here are five popular ideas that science has already left behind.
A new reading of the subsurface beneath Mars’ south pole overturns an old theory and opens a new path to understanding what the ice is really hiding.
December 2025 brings wonderful celestial events with Jupiter as the star, including the Super Cold Moon and the spectacular Geminid and Ursid meteor showers, along with the Solstice.
A stellar explosion captured almost instantaneously revealed the previously unseen structure of a supernova, a fleeting glimpse that redefines how we understand the last hours of giant stars.
NASA has shared never-before-seen photos taken from Mars of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing its composition and a mysterious glow that intrigues scientists and the curious alike. Spoiler alert: it's not an alien spacecraft.
Standing up to Aristotle was tough, especially in an era with no access to telescopes. Imagine the conviction in your thought process that physics is used even 800 years later. That's the story of Richard Fishacre.
A group of brilliant women worked at the Harvard Observatory classifying stars for minimum pay, unaware that their calculations would reveal the structure of the cosmos, make it possible to measure astronomical distances, and lay the foundations of modern astrophysics.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its clearest look yet at Herbig-Haro 49/50, exposing fine shock-wave details and even uncovering a distant spiral galaxy hidden within the outflow.More information: How Moons Form: The James Webb Telescope Reveals For The First Time The Birth Of These Celestial Bodies
A new paper reveals fresh evidence about the collision that gave rise to the Moon and how Earth entered a collision course with Theia.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest scientific instrument, recreates high-energy collisions to search for new fundamental particles, such as the mysterious Higgs boson.
A new study reveals that water once flowed beneath the Martian sand dunes. This could mean the planet had habitable conditions for longer than previously thought. This finding strengthens the search for extraterrestrial life on Mars.