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On Oct. 25, 2020, NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped a selfie after drilling into a rock called “Mary Anning.” Years later, that sample has delivered the richest mix of organic molecules ever detected on Mars.
Curiosity uncovered complex organics on Mars, including molecules tied to life’s chemistry and ancient habitability.
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The Milky Way is a massive, spiral-shaped collection of stars, gas, and dust that houses our own solar system. Dr Karl Fiteni (inset) led the study. Photo shows the core of the Milky Way as photographed by Joseph Caruana from Dwejra Gozo
SpaceFor the first time, astronomers identify the edge of the Milky Way’s discJoshua Shavit
Physicists found evidence that hidden quark pairs in the vacuum may shape how matter forms in high-energy collisions.
SpaceFor the first time ever, scientists create particles out of empty spaceShy Cohen
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater. Gale Crater is a paleolake located close to the putative coastal shelf.
Space‘Bathtub Ring’ points to vast ancient ocean on MarsJoseph Shavit
New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today.
SpaceCosmic simulations reveal how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of yearsJoshua Shavit
NASA astronaut and Boeing Crew Flight Test Pilot Suni Williams. Astronauts still grip objects as if gravity matters, even after months in space, a new study finds.
SpaceWhy do astronauts still act like gravity exists in space?Joseph Shavit
Direct lab data suggests neutron star X-ray bursts face a weaker element-building bottleneck than expected.
SpaceMississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the labJoshua Shavit
The gravitational lens system JVAS B1938+666. The black ring and central dot show an infrared image of a distant galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing. The orange emission shows radio waves from the same system. The inset highlights a small "pinch" in the image caused by an additional dense object—about a million times the mass of the sun—shown as a white blob.
SpaceDense dark matter clumps link three strange objects across the universeJoseph Shavit
Astronomers confirmed three bodies in TOI-201, a rare exoplanet system changing in real time. An artist rendering of the system.
SpaceStrange hidden forces are shaping a rare three-body exoplanet systemJoseph Shavit
Salama (left) and Akgümüs (right) with the experimental apparatus.
SpaceUndergraduate students built a cavity detector to search for axion dark matterJoshua Shavit
The strong stellar wind from the supergiant star pushes the jets launched by the black hole away from the star. This causes the jet direction to vary as the black hole and the supergiant star move around their orbit.
Space‘Dancing jets’ from black hole reveal their immense powerJoseph Shavit
Somewhere between clean mathematics and lived experience, time seems to pick a side.
SpaceEinstein claims the past and future are identical – then why do we ageJoseph Shavit
Scientists propose spotting alien life through patterns across many planets, not just single biosignatures.
SpaceResearchers propose a broader new way to detect life beyond EarthJoseph Shavit
Astronomers find three distinct groups of merging black holes hidden in gravitational-wave data.
SpaceAstronomers discover three distinct groups of merging black holesJoshua Shavit
The cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang that fills all of space, passes through massive galaxy clusters whose motion slightly alters the light, allowing scientists to measure how fast the clusters are moving toward one another and test how strongly gravity pulls across the largest distances in the universe.
SpaceScientists reveal the hidden forces shaping how gravity works across the UniverseJoseph Shavit
Astronaut Christina Koch watching Earth from the Orion spacecraft (image taken with iPhone 17 Pro Max)
SpaceThe human eyes behind Artemis II’s most memorable photosBreaking Science
Galaxy GN-z11, shown in the inset, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only three percent of its current age.
SpaceAstronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big BangJoshua Shavit