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Beneath Europa’s cracked and frozen shell lies a vast ocean of liquid water and what’s seeping up through that ice may be one of the most compelling clues we have

For sixty years, the search for life beyond Earth has been built on the single assumption that alien life will look enough like us to recognise. A radical new idea

Our Sun didn’t always call this quiet corner of the Milky Way home. New research using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has uncovered evidence that the Sun

The spacecraft changed the binary system’s orbit, confirming that a kinetic impactor can be an effective planetary defense technique for deflecting a near-Earth object.

Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t think about that one too much—you’re assuming something

Every planet with a magnetic field has a radiation belt, a region of space where charged particles get trapped and flung around at extraordinary speeds. Earth has two of them,

Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

So that’s all nice. But why now? That’s the question everyone asks. We went decades — centuries, millennia really — without seeing a single rock that didn’t have a “Made

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.

Rocky planets are found in abundance around M-type stars (red dwarfs), so finding another one doesn’t always generate headlines. But an international team of astronomers say that one recent M-dwarf