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MAVEN data shows Mars can redirect plasma inside its ionosphere during solar storms, revealing a new space weather effect.
A solar storm exposed a hidden plasma response in Mars’ atmosphere, changing how scientists see unmagnetized planets.
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A new method uses dust rings in protoplanetary disks to estimate the masses of hidden newborn planets.
SpaceAstronomers can now measure newborn planet mass from dusty stellar ringsJoseph Shavit
A split image showing an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, taken in 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, taken in 2019).
SpaceForty years of solar data finds our Sun is changing from the inside outJoshua Shavit
This artist's impression shows two Earth-sized worlds passing in front of their parent red dwarf star, which is much smaller and cooler than our Sun.
SpaceAstronomers observe six red dwarf stars ‘eating’ Earth-like planetsJoseph Shavit
New models suggest Mercury’s polar ice may have been delivered by one major impact and trapped within a single Mercurian day.
SpaceMercury’s polar water ice may have arrived in one giant impactJoshua Shavit
Researchers at Concordia University created a high-fidelity CPR simulator to study how blood circulates during cardiac arrest in space.
SpaceNew CPR simulator could help save astronauts in spaceJoshua Shavit
New gravitational-wave data reveal distinct black hole sub-populations with different masses, spins, and likely origins.
SpaceThe Universe is creating black holes in many different waysJoseph Shavit
NASA’s HPSC chip is showing major gains in speed and resilience, promising smarter autonomous spacecraft for future deep-space missions.
SpaceNASA’s HPSC chip transforms how spacecraft navigate, land, and exploreJoseph Shavit
Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years.
SpaceMysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worldsJoshua Shavit
Warp drive could reshape interstellar travel, but negative energy, instability, and causality still stand in the way.
SpacePhysicists believe that warp drive could exist in the next 100 yearsJoseph Shavit
A new review tightens limits on whether light changes speed in deep space, sharpening one of physics’ most important tests.
SpaceNew discovery rewrites what we know about the speed of lightJoseph Shavit
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet, reaching a large swell by daybreak. The clouds dissipate on the dayside, leaving clear skies in the early evening.
SpaceJWST catches mineral clouds forming and fading on ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanetJoshua Shavit
New math shows how a crystal-like critical state in spacetime can tip into a microscopic black hole.
SpaceTiny black holes may form out of a crystal-like state in spacetimeJoseph Shavit
JWST detected methane in TOI-199 b, the first temperate giant exoplanet to have its atmosphere studied in detail.
SpaceJWST finds methane in the atmosphere of a rare temperate Saturn-sized planetJoseph Shavit
Reanalysis of 14 years of Hubble data weakens evidence for Europa plumes and sharpens the picture of its hydrogen atmosphere.
SpaceThe case for water plumes on Europa just got much harder to makeJoseph Shavit
A lunar laser locked to an ultrastable silicon cavity placed inside one of the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters could provide the infrastructure for a lunar time scale, Earth-Moon optical communication, satellite-based space distance measurements and imaging, and a space-based optical atomic clock.
SpaceDark crater laser could standardize lunar navigation and timekeepingJoseph Shavit
New simulations reveal a bizarre superionic carbon-hydrogen phase that may exist deep inside giant planets.
SpaceScientists discover new state of matter inside Uranus and NeptuneJoshua Shavit