A star was wrongly accused of a cosmic crime: devouring its own planet
Here's who really dunnit. Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating…
At the site of the dinosaur-killing crater, scientists find a surprise
Asteroids aren't all bad. When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it’s not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped…
The U.S. is building a gas station in space
“If you run out of fuel, you run out of life.” Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with…
Dire wolves have been brought back from extinction. What does this mean?
Colossal Biosciences created the wolves using gene-editing technology. The sci-fi fairytale of de-extinction may become a reality. Colossal Laboratories and…
On Saturn’s moon Titan, life might be tiny, reclusive, and hard to find
This could be bad news for NASA's Dragonfly mission. Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like worlds…
Hubble captures a stunning cradle of stars in neighboring galaxy
It's a window into the early universe. A new snapshot of a busy star cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope…
A star factory at the heart of our galaxy is mysterious and important
The Webb telescope reveals secrets of Sagittarius C. About 200 light-years from the black hole at the center of the…
A great and powerful Martian dust devil swallows another in new video
It's a rare sight. Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz.…
The first people to fly in space over the poles got this stunning view
“It's another kind of desert.” When cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang footed the cost of a SpaceX flight over the North…
NASA's rovers just found similar gnarly rocks on opposite sides of Mars
What story do these bumpy rocks tell? Aliens aren’t terraforming Mars, but one of NASA‘s rovers just found something with…