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Scientists track down fresh boulder falls on the moon
By poring over thousands of satellite images, researchers geolocated 245 fresh boulder tracks, revealing signs of seismic activity or impact events within the last half-million years.
What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025
Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.
Storms leave 120-mile scar in Alberta visible from space (images)
Hailstones drove into terrain in southern Alberta during a storm Aug. 20, creating a scar on the landscape visible in NASA satellites.
108 million degrees! Solar flares are far hotter than thought, study suggests
New research shows that solar flares are six times hotter than thought and calls for updated sun models that could improve space weather forecasting.
Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to haul its samples home to find out, scientists say
We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life — but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.
Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!'
Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than previously thought, changing our perception of the early solar system.
Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say
If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.
Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ancient Red Planet life — but we need to examine them here on Earth to fully understand them.
