You’ve probably heard that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history this year by becoming the first spacecraft to “touch the Sun.” Now there’s video of the probe whizzing through the Sun’s corona, and to say it’s breathtaking is an understatement … Read More
For the first time, an experiment has confirmed that the laws of thermodynamics apply even at the quantum level – which means that even in the quantum world, you can’t unspill that glass of milk. The second law of thermodynamics … Read More
Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System, deeply marks the surface of Mars; a tectonic crack widened by erosion and marked by nearby channels potentially carved by water. It turns out that some of that water might still … Read More
An astrophotographer has revealed his ‘clearest ever photo of the Sun.’ Andrew McCarthy layered 150,000 individual photographs of the Sun to represent the intricate and stunning detail of the solar system’s star. The photographer, known on Instagram as @cosmic-background, defines … Read More
With bugs, algae and other resource-efficient foods we could feed one million people on Mars within a century of arriving there. Scientists even invented a martian diet. In the science fiction novel and film The Martian, a stranded astronaut survives … Read More
There’s something strange in the lunar neighborhood. China’s Yutu 2 rover has discovered a strange object on the horizon while exploring the Von Kármán Crater on the Moon’s far side. In a very blurry image, it appears to be a … Read More