Category: 7. Science

Rogue worlds two ways

How does a planet find itself drifting alone through space? There are two main ways that we know of. 

Some rogue worlds start off the same way the planets in our Solar System did, coalescing from the swirling disk of gas and…

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, like most 20-year-olds on Earth, MRO’s camera roll is absolutely packed.

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Darren Keralla typically flies drones on search and rescue missions for lost hikers or those injured in some kind of accident. But in July, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder enlisted him in a search for traffic cones scattered…

2025 has seen stargazers look on in awe as a trio of magnificent comets barreled headlong into the inner solar system to survive a close brush with the sun, only to emerge to race back out into the blackness of space, never to be seen again.

Of…