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Mercury may have shrunk up to 30% more than estimated because crater debris hides wrinkles created as the planet cooled.
Hidden faults suggest Mercury may have lost about 23 kilometers from its diameter, changing ideas about its core and thermal history.
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Tiny changes in the Moon’s orbit could reveal gravitational waves in a frequency range that existing observatories struggle to detect.
SpaceScientists find a new way to search for gravitational waves using the MoonJoseph Shavit
A million-person Moon city could exhaust even a generous lunar water supply in about a century despite 98% recycling.
SpaceThe moon could support permanent settlements, just not the giant cities Elon Musk envisionsJoshua Shavit
New models show how a hypothetical Venus moon could have spiraled inward and disappeared without another catastrophic impact.
SpaceVenus may have swallowed its own moon, new models findsJoseph Shavit
Scientists find Earth’s response to solar storms may not have a limit, suggesting stronger risks to modern technology.
SpaceExtreme solar storms could hit Earth harder than scientists expectedJoseph Shavit
A catalog of 2,884 Type Ia supernovae strengthens hints that dark energy may change as the universe evolves.
Space2,884 exploding stars deepen the mystery of dark energyJoseph Shavit
CERN recreated high-energy cosmic ray collisions with oxygen, exposing major gaps in models of particle showers in Earth’s atmosphere.
SpaceCERN recreates cosmic ray collisions to reveal what happens when space particles hit EarthJoseph Shavit
Artificial eye lenses exposed outside the ISS reveal how cataract surgery supplies might survive future missions to Mars.
HealthFuture Mars astronauts may need eye surgery millions of miles from EarthJoseph Shavit
Thousands of dead satellites, spent rocket components and fragments of spacecraft circle Earth at tremendous speeds.
SpaceScientists develop a way to capture space junk using robots and spinning magnetsJoseph Shavit
Solar models suggest the young Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth whose chemical fingerprint could remain inside it today.
SpaceA missing super-Earth may have been swallowed up by the Sun billions of years agoJoseph Shavit
A new SETI framework proposes searching Moon dust for microscopic technological debris that may have crossed the galaxy billions of years ago.
SpaceAlien technology could be hiding as microscopic dust on the MoonJoseph Shavit
New simulations suggest geological strength let a hot Theia produce an almost intact proto-Moon within hours of its collision with Earth.
SpaceThe Moon may have formed almost intact within hours of Theia smashing into EarthJoseph Shavit
Around the SKA telescope, old star stories survive through practical knowledge, new meanings and changing community traditions.
SpaceBefore MeerKAT, South Africa’s Karoo telescope had its own ways of reading the starsJoseph Shavit
Captured within this image is the newly discovered galaxy proto-supercluster named COSMOS-z3.1-A.
SpaceA cosmic giant 5,000 times the Milky Way’s mass emerges from the early UniverseJoseph Shavit
A new model reveals how strongly Venus’s mysterious cloud absorber must block ultraviolet light, sharply narrowing possible candidates.
SpaceScientists identify a mysterious substance darkening Venus’s cloudsJoseph Shavit
Gaia measurements show massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud moving apart, suggesting the Large Magellanic Cloud may be disrupting it.
SpaceThe Large Magellanic Cloud may be tearing its smaller neighbor apartJoseph Shavit
Nitrogen in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed at roughly 30 kelvins or below in the icy outskirts of another star system.
SpaceNitrogen in 3I/ATLAS reveals an extremely cold birthplace beyond the solar systemJoseph Shavit