3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (513+ words) NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted a strange new feature on Mars — tiny, unusually broad and shallow holes scattered across the planet’s surface — and scientists do not yet know what created them. Unlike many pits previously seen on Mars, these depressions…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (513+ words) NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted a strange new feature on Mars — tiny, unusually broad and shallow holes scattered across the planet’s surface — and scientists do not yet know what created them. Unlike many pits previously seen on Mars, these depressions…...

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5+ day, 47+ min ago   (572+ words) NASA’s space telescopes have captured a spectacular side of the cosmos dominated by crimson, orange and infrared colours, revealing glowing clouds of hydrogen, dense stellar dust and the remains of exploded stars. From vast stellar nurseries to the debris left…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (421+ words) A tiny asteroid has just made an entry in Earth's atmosphere. Named CERNQ52, the space rock entered Earth’s atmosphere on September 6. It was travelling towards the planet at high speed. But there is another reason the event caught scientists’ attention. CERNQ52 was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1446+ words) Saturn’s famous north-pole hexagon is no longer the planet’s only giant geometric curiosity. Astronomers have confirmed a huge, 10-sided atmospheric wave circling Saturn’s south pole, revealing that the gas giant can apparently produce polygon-shaped weather systems in both hemispheres. The…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (679+ words) Scientists searching for one of the universe's biggest mysteries may have caught their first tantalising glimpse of dark matter. The international team behind the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has identified a rare particle interaction deep underground in South Dakota that appears…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (377+ words) Saturn is famous for its bizarre six-sided hexagon. Now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted something even stranger. A giant, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave, or "decagon", swirling around the gas giant’s south pole. The discovery marks the first time astronomers…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) 2. Cassiopeia A: Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a star that exploded, leaving behind a cloud of expanding stellar debris. (Image: NASA) 3. Eagle Nebula: The Pillars of Creation, seen in X-rays by Chandra and infrared by Webb, reveal young stars forming…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (400+ words) Want to own a tiny piece of humanity’s next view of the Universe? NASA is giving people a chance to do exactly that at least digitally. The agency has launched an "Adopt A Pixel" initiative linked to the Nancy Grace…...