What would happen if Earth became tidally locked to the Moon?
Gravity is the force behind tidal locking, but the Moon's unique case is rooted in a cataclysmic event.
Sep 18, 2025
Take a tour through Milky Way's star-forming regions with Gaia's first 3D fly through map
For decades, thick clouds of gas and dust have obscured the true three-dimensional shapes of these stellar nurseries, making them notoriously difficult for scientists to study.
Sep 17, 2025
New tool helps scientists predict dazzling auroras lighting up the Martian sky
After capturing a second visible-light aurora from the planet's surface, NASA's Perseverance rover confirmed the breakthrough.
Sep 16, 2025
Life on Mars? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and astrobiologist David Grinspoon break down NASA's latest discovery
NASA has discovered a Martian rock sample containing mineral and organic signatures that, on Earth, are found almost exclusively with biological activity.
Sep 16, 2025
Scientists finally uncover the mysterious solar feature controlling the Sun's magnetic power
UC scientists have finally created a model of the tachocline, a mysterious, thin layer inside the sun that generates its magnetic field.
Sep 16, 2025
Astronomers in search of habitable worlds rule out atmospheric scenarios on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e
A new study using the Webb Space Telescope has found that the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to possess an atmosphere similar to that of Venus or Mars.
Sep 15, 2025
New research reveals how volcanic gases may have made early Mars a cradle for life
The study challenges previous climate models of the Red Planet that had focused on sulfur dioxide.
Sep 14, 2025
'Loudest ever' gravitational wave provides strong confirmation of Hawking and Kerr's black hole theories
The signal, named GW250114, provides the strongest validation yet for the long-held theories of black hole mechanics proposed by Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr.
Sep 13, 2025
A 'quasi-moon' asteroid has been orbiting Earth for 60 years—and scientists are just finding out
Pan-STARRS observatory astronomers in Hawaii detected the asteroid, designated 2025 PN7, on August 2, 2025.
Sep 13, 2025
Researchers accidentally discover a giant stellar 'blowtorch' at the Milky Way's border
The JWST captured a rare event, a colossal stellar jet erupting from a developing star in the distant Sharpless 2-284 nebula, located on the outer fringes of the Milky Way.
Sep 13, 2025
Astronomers discover supermassive black holes hiding behind cosmic dust for billions of years—until now
These black holes were found to be hosted by candidate galaxies and formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang.
Sep 12, 2025
Butterfly-shaped hole in the Sun's atmosphere stuns scientists—potential effects on Earth on September 14
The 'coronal hole' is roughly 310,680 miles wide in the sun's atmosphere.
Sep 12, 2025
NASA finds signs of ancient microbial life on Mars in 'groundbreaking discovery'—what it means for humanity
The 'Sapphire Canyon' sample, collected by the Perseverance rover, is being hailed as the strongest evidence yet found for ancient life on Mars.
Sep 11, 2025
First-ever full measurement of black hole's three-dimensional recoil confirms Einstein's theory
The groundbreaking research focused on a specific gravitational wave signal, GW190412, which was originally detected in 2019.
Sep 11, 2025
Astrophysicists reveal 'Earth-sized' exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have atmosphere and liquid water to support life
Of all the exoplanets, TRAPPIST-1e is particularly fascinating to astronomers because its orbit within the habitable zone makes it a prime candidate for having liquid water on its surface.
Sep 9, 2025
Astronomers detect star-forming jets in Milky Way’s outer region, proving star formation follows universal process
Using the powerful ALMA observatory, researchers pinpointed a protostar named Sh 2-283-1a SMM1, located over 51,000 light-years from the galactic center.
Sep 9, 2025
Mars has one more thing in common with Earth—scientists finally resolve a longstanding mystery
Using data from NASA's now-retired InSight lander, a research team is challenging long-held assumptions about what's inside the red planet.
Sep 8, 2025
In a breakthrough, scientists successfully predicted a solar storm just 15 hours before it struck Earth
Using data from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, a team of scientists successfully predicted the magnetic structure of a coronal mass ejection (CME) in March 2024.
Sep 8, 2025
Millions of light years old 'warm' interstellar dust found in Makani galaxy's hot halo
Using the JWST, a team investigated the Makani galaxy, a distant celestial body whose Hawaiian name appropriately means 'wind'.
Sep 7, 2025
Scientists solve 50-year-old mystery, discover solar flares 6.5 times hotter than expected
The energy released from the outer atmosphere of the sun spreads across our system, and its temperature is much higher than previously believed.
Sep 7, 2025