After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.
Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn…

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.
Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn…

A new investigation is offering fresh insight into how galaxies like the Milky Way take shape, evolve over time, and develop unexpected chemical patterns in their stars.
Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the study…

The fundamental nature of charge continues to fascinate physicists, and recent work explores the possibility of observing fractional charges in a controlled laboratory setting. Alan Kahan, Pablo Viñas, and Torsten V. Zache, along with…


Supermassive black holes are notoriously messy eaters, but the behemoth at the heart of spiral galaxy NGC 3783 really takes the cake — and then flings it out into space at a fifth the speed of light.
Astronomers recently spotted a gale of hot,…

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters – capable of sinking their claws even into solid stone.
Then scientists…

They say one person’s trash is another’s treasure, but a chunk of ‘rock’ used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by almost anyone’s standards.
A woman discovered the 3.5-kilogram (7.7-pound) stone in a stream bed in southeast…
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