NASA’s DART mission unleashed a blitz of boulders into space

Space rocks ejected during the DART mission carried 3 times more momentum than the spacecraft itself. This factor could influence planetary defense missions.

Probing the Cosmic Dark Ages from the far side of the moon

Researchers are planning the CosmoCube mission to travel to the far side of the moon, an area of radio silence, to listen to whispers from the cosmic Dark Ages.

Small planets are common around small stars, says new study

A team of astronomers led by Heidelberg University in Germany have found that small planets like Earth are common around small, low-mass red dwarf stars.

Human dam-building has caused a small (but astonishing) pole shift

Human dam-building - nearly 7,000 dams from 1835 to 2011 - has shifted Earth's poles and caused a drop in global sea levels.

Airport radar could signal our existence to aliens

Airport radar leaks electromagnetic energy into space. These signals are strong enough that aliens 200 light-years away would be able to detect our presence.

Earth could be in a void, Big Bang sound waves suggest

New research says sound waves from the Big Bang support the idea that Earth is in a huge void, which could explain the Hubble tension.

New clues to how galaxies sustain star formation

High-velocity gases in Messier 83 originate from outside the galaxy, explaining how galaxies can sustain star formation over billions of years.

Did something just hit Saturn? See the image here!

Did something hit Saturn, resulting in a bright flash on July 5, 2025? Possibly! We await confirmation from other observers. Find out more here.

Phones and wifi block our view of our place in the universe

Astronomers help locate our place in the universe by analyzing the radio waves that come from black holes in the distant universe. But radio is getting crowded.

Mars orbiter learns new tricks in search for water

A NASA Mars orbiter - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - is trying out a new maneuver to help it find ice and liquid water beneath Mars' surface.