Artist’s concept of exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b – credit, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Keith Miller (Caltech/IPAC) In a story that proves you don’t have to be a star to find a star, astronomers are excited to train the next generation of telescopes at an Earth-like exoplanet discovered by a citizen scientist. Alexander Venner, currently studying studying at the
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its onboard LEDs, typically used for illuminating shaded areas during daytime operations, to capture a very rare nighttime shot of the Martian surface. Curiosity captured its illuminated shot of Mars at night on December 6, 2025, the 4,740th Martian day, or sol, of its mission. Although the photo was captured
From fast-moving rivers to trickling creeks, scientists around the world work to measure discharge, or the volume of water flowing past a point per second. Discharge is the number that turns “the river is high” into “this could flood downstream,” and it underpins everything from reservoir operations to crop planning. The problem is that gauges
Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, might finally add some clarity. Radio astronomers are very familiar with pulsars, a type of rapidly rotating neutron star. To us watching the skies from Earth,
A team of paleontologists has uncovered a vast and previously unknown ecosystem deep inside a cave in New Zealand, revealing fossils dating back one million years. Found on the North Island near the famous Waitomo Caves, the Moa Eggshell Cave has yielded what researchers describe as a “missing volume” of New Zealand’s natural history. Buried
WASHINGTON — It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs called sauropods that included the largest land animals ever on Earth. But, as new research shows, Brachiosaurus and other sauropod babies appear
A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds of Madagascar, Darwin’s bark spider spins silk tougher than Kevlar, a very strong synthetic fiber, setting a new benchmark for biological strength. According to a study, published in The Journal of Arachnology, the spider
Previously overlooked, two large forelimb bones housed in a Utah museum have now been confirmed as the most massive ever assigned to a stegosaurid dinosaur. According to a new study, these fossils, originally excavated in 1950, are so large they suggest a dinosaur approaching the scale of Jurassic sauropods, far beyond what scientists believed possible
Since 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars. Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, it just achieved another feat. This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic’s Claude
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft sit atop the Mobile Launch at Launch Complex 39B the morning of Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Abnormally cold weather forecast over the weekend for Florida delayed both the earliest possible launch date for the Artemis 2 mission and a crucial fueling test for