Space

Dec 23rd, 2025 - The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various rovers have found meteorites on Mars before, this is the first time NASA's Perseverance rover has found one on its journey to look for signs of life on Mars — though it might be worth mentioning that the Perseverance has been exploring Mars since it landed in February 2021, and the rover ... [Read More]

Dec 23rd, 2025 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A few months from now, a NASA spacecraft called the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will begin its 20th year of observing the Red Planet from above. And, ... [Read More]

Dec 23rd, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Young star systems, like nearby Fomalhaut, are messy places. Rocks slam together and icy bodies shatter. Dust fills the space where solid objects once moved quietly along. This chaos is how planets are built, but it usually plays out far from view and over very long stretches of time. That is why Fomalhaut has scientists buzzing. In just 20 years, astronomers have seen the dusty aftermath of two massive space collisions around this star. These events are rare, according ... [Read More]

Dec 22nd, 2025 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The final frontier is an unendingly beautiful expanse filled with unimaginable wonders, making it the perfect sandbox for photographers, astronomical ... [Read More]

Dec 22nd, 2025 - Supermassive black holes are an anomaly that sits quietly at the centers of galaxies, holding gas and stars closer with their powerful gravity. But now scientists have discovered a mind-boggling phenomenon: a supermassive black hole skyrocketing through space. According to a new study , NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the runway black hole that measures about 10 million times larger than the sun and moving at a speed of 2.2 million miles per hour. The supermassive black hole ... [Read More]

Dec 22nd, 2025 - The universe may be lopsided – new research The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction. Should we care about this? Well, today's "standard cosmological model" – which describes the dynamics and structure of the entire cosmos – rests squarely on the assumption that it is isotropic (looks the same in all ... [Read More]

Dec 22nd, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Astronomers have finally watched a hidden partner star move in an almost perfect circle around a bloated red giant about 530 light years away. The system, called pi1 Gruis, offers an unusually clear preview of how close companions can reshape dying stars like our Sun billions of years from now. Pi1 Gruis started with roughly the Sun's mass, yet it has ballooned to hundreds of times the Sun's size and now outshines it thousands of times over. By catching a nearby companion ... [Read More]

Dec 21st, 2025 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter QUICK FACTS What it is: The spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 Where it is: 120 million light-years away, in the constellation Canis Major When it was ... [Read More]

Dec 21st, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Astronomers spotted an object that looks like a planet, weighs about as much as Jupiter, and yet behaves like nothing anyone has seen before. This strange world sits dangerously close to a dead star. Its air is filled with carbon instead of water vapor. Sooty clouds drift through its skies. Even its shape is warped, stretched by gravity into something closer to a lemon than a sphere. It is the kind of find that makes scientists stop, stare, and admit they don't have a ... [Read More]

Dec 21st, 2025 - When NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) rode safely to space on an Ariane 5 booster from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the liftoff at 7:20 A.M. EST on Dec. 25, 2021, marked the end of a development full of delays and cost overruns — and the beginning of the telescope's month-long journey to its destination nearly 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. JWST originated in a 1996 report put together by a panel of astronomers attempting to plan ... [Read More]

Dec 20th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google Seven tiny grains of dust from China's Chang'e-6 Moon mission have revealed traces of an unusually fragile, CI chondrite meteorite in lunar soil. It is the first confirmed time that this specific meteorite type has been found on the Moon. The CI chondrites found on the Moon are rare, water-rich stony meteorites that carry many easily-evaporated elements. Their survival inside Moon soil suggests that ancient water-bearing asteroids once bombarded the Earth Moon system more ... [Read More]

Dec 19th, 2025 - Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, December 19 We're getting ready to say goodbye to the summertime constellations, including Cygnus the Swan, now about 40° high in the west two hours after sunset. Before this famous star pattern disappears, however, let's take a last look at some of its lovely deep-sky treasures, such as the North America Nebula (NGC 7000).  With no Moon in the sky tonight, darkness is on our side. NGC 7000 lies just 3° east of Deneb ... [Read More]

Dec 19th, 2025 - Saturnian moon may be the solar system's biggest slushie According to a NASA study, Saturn's moon Titan may be the most fantastically large slushie of all time. Based on a reexamination of data from the Cassini probe collected in 2012, the moon's long-suspected global ocean may actually be a slurry of ice and rock. Many icy moons in the outer solar system are believed to harbor vast subsurface oceans sandwiched between thick ice shells and rocky cores. Since 2008, the methane-shrouded moon ... [Read More]

Dec 19th, 2025 - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking a near-Earth asteroid roughly the size of an airplane. The asteroid named 2025 XQ3 is set to make a safe closest approach to our planet on December 19, 2025. The object, approximately 100 feet in diameter, will be located at a distance of 2.14 million miles from Earth, according to the space agency. Although it's extremely far in general standards, it's the closest the asteroid will ever come to our planet in its 2025 orbit. Another asteroid will ... [Read More]

Dec 19th, 2025 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter We've watched it speed through the solar system using the most powerful telescopes in human history . We've studied its light with probes whipping around the ... [Read More]

Dec 19th, 2025 - An infrared atlas reveals how the universe grew up, and where life's ingredients hide. In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the universe ballooned outward at a speed that still defies explanation, stretching space itself before stars or even atoms had a chance to form. Cosmologists call this moment inflation, and for decades it has remained frustratingly abstract, etched into equations but with no reference in physical observations. Now, a new space telescope has begun to ... [Read More]