Subsurface oceans on alien worlds better for life than Earth’s oceans?

New research suggests that worlds with subsurface oceans are common in our galaxy, and might be even better environments for life than Earth's oceans.

China and Russia will be building a moon base together

China and Russia are cooperating in plans to build a lunar research outpost on the moon. The China National Space Administration and Roscosmos - Russia's space agency - made the announcement in a memorandum dated March 9, 2021.

SETI’s Nathalie Cabrol on modern-day Mars life, underground

SETI's Nathalie Cabrol believes a widespread biosphere exists on Mars that has migrated underground over the past few billion years.

Early science results, and more sounds, from Perseverance Mars rover

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has just sent back its first initial science results, as well as some new audio recordings of wind and the rover's laser zapping rocks.

Highest-energy cosmic rays originate in star clusters, not supernovae

New research solves a decades-long riddle: from where do the highest-energy cosmic rays originate? Even supernovae - exploding stars - can't explain them. Now it seems these sorts of cosmic rays may come from clusters of young, hot, massive stars.

Life materials found on asteroid Itokawa

Scientists have confirmed the presence of water and organic materials that are essential for life on the surface of asteroid Itokawa. The samples of rock and dust were returned to Earth by the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft in 2010.

New images from China’s Tianwen-1 at Mars

The Tianwen-1 mission entered Mars orbit at the end of February. It's expected to land a rover on Mars' surface in May. In the meantime, check out these new images from the Tianwen-1 orbiter.

Hubble Space Telescope back out of safe mode, working to resume normal operations

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope went into a protective safe mode early March 7, after on onboard software program failed during a guide star acquisition. NASA has now announced that spacecraft was moved out of safe mode, into a pre-science state with the plan of returning to normal operations.

View a map of 25,000 supermassive black holes

Hours of radio observations have enabled scientists to create a map of the locations in Earth's night sky of 25,000 supermassive black holes. These black holes are very far away, occupying the cores of distant galaxies.

The sounds of space images

Via sonification, you can listen to the sounds of space images, as observed at different frequencies. Listen to videos featuring some of these orchestral pieces here!