Lasers aren’t just useful for entertaining cats or pointing out features of powerpoint slides. They can also drill holes on icy extraterrestrial bodies from comets to Mars polar caps. At

Just as Earth has its four familiar seasons, our Sun experiences its own version of seasonal cycles that affect life on our planet. But unlike Earth’s yearly rhythm, the Sun’s

For the second time in history, the gentle glow of the aurora has been captured in Mars’s night sky. It’s a phenomenon we enjoy here on Earth and we can,

I still remember the first time I saw Saturn through a 10 inch telescope when I was ten years old. It looked just like it did in pictures, a pale

A binary star that has puzzled astronomers for decades may finally be explained. The accretor star is sucking material from its donor star so rapidly that it can’t contain it

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year – https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/ Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0

Seeking refuge in caves is natural. Animals do it, and so did our ancestors. Future lunar astronauts may do the same when they visit the Moon. Lunar caves can provide

A study published in a recent edition of Astrophysical Journal Letters by researchers at the University of Manchester and Hong Kong University has charted the growth and evolution of IC418,

Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they’re so hard to detect. Despite the fact that 400 trillion of them