Moon and sun bring several cosmic events in 2026. Here’s when the fun begins

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...
Indian Defence Review

Everest Isn’t the Tallest Mountain After All: Meet the Solar System’s Real Highest Peak

A colossal Martian volcano defies everything we know about planetary geology. Hidden clues beneath its frozen summit hint at ...
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NASA found planet-scale scars on Mercury that shouldn’t exist

Close-up images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that Mercury’s surface records impacts of almost unimaginable scale. Bright ray systems radiate from certain craters, stretching hundreds and ...

Are we the Martians? The intriguing idea that life on Earth began on the red planet

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...
The Monterey County Herald

‘Super-Jupiter’ exoplanet is not so Jupiter-like, UCSC study finds

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...
Earth.com

Hubble finds the largest planet nursery ever seen, and it's wildly chaotic

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...
Arizona Daily Star

Hectic year gives way to quiet cruise for U of A asteroid mission

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...
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Inside Out | And then there were three

Astronomers discovered a comet originating from outside the solar system this summer. Its name is 3I/ATLAS ("three-eye-Atlas"), which means it's the third interstellar object found in the solar system ...