Surprise discovery suggests that black holes are more complex than thought By Tereza Pultarova Black holes exert small amounts of pressure on their environment a new study finds, hinting at a more complex nature of these mysterious objects.
NASA unveils landing site on the moon for ice-hunting VIPER rover By Mike Wall The ice-hunting Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will land just west of Nobile Crater, which sits near the moon's south pole, NASA officials announced today (Sept. 20).
What is the Moon Festival? A scholar of Chinese religions explains. By Mario Poceski With the arrival of September and hints of cooler temperatures also comes one of most important traditional festivals in the Chinese calendar.
Mars was always too small to hold onto its oceans, rivers and lakes By Mike Wall Mars was doomed to desiccation by its small size, a new study suggests.
How frequent is the full Harvest Moon? By Joe Rao The Harvest Moon is always the full moon closest to the time of the autumnal equinox.
Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity By Vicky Stein Einstein's paper on special relativity revolutionized light, light speed, matter and energy with a deceptively simple equation.
NASA to reveal moon landing site for ice-lunar rover today. Here's how to follow it live. By Elizabeth Howell NASA will hold a press conference Monday as part of its Artemis program.
New gravitational wave detector picks up possible signal from the beginning of time By Adam Mann Physicists turned on a new type of gravitational-wave sensor and saw two intriguing results, but they aren't yet ready to claim a discovery.
Scientists watch a galaxy's supermassive black hole shoot out the galaxy's gas By Rahul Rao There comes a time in every galaxy's life, astronomers think, when the galaxy ejects a large part of its gas, but scientists aren't certain what drives this "mid-life crisis."
Harvest Moon 2021: When and how to see September's full moon By Jesse Emspak The full moon of September 2021 also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.
1st 'atom tornado' created from swirling vortex of helium atoms By Ben Turner Physicists have created the first-ever atomic vortex beam — a swirling tornado of atoms and molecules with mysterious properties that have yet to be understood.
Otherworldly 'time crystal' made inside Google quantum computer could change physics forever By Ben Turner The crystals neatly sidestep some of physics' most iron-clad laws.
Scientists chip away at secrets of planet formation, origin of life in bevy of new research By Meghan Bartels A whopping 20 new scientific papers use data gathered by a host of radio dishes perched high in the Chilean desert to tease apart the mysteries of how planets form.
Ancient Mars was rocked by violent, climate-changing volcanic eruptions By Tereza Pultarova Volcanic super eruptions regularly tore up the surface of Mars billions of years ago, altering the planet's climate for decades and creating scars that are still visible today.
China moon rock studies include fusion energy analysis, volcanic history By Andrew Jones Several science institutions in China are now studying rocks collected from the moon by the Chang'e 5 mission for research that includes evaluating the material as a potential source of fusion power.
900-year-old Chinese supernova mystery points to strange nebula By Doris Elin Urrutia In the year 1181 AD, a new bright point of light as luminous as the planet Saturn appeared to Chinese and Japanese skygazers for a little more than six months before disappearing.
Satellites watch Australian wildfires trigger CO2 booms and ocean algal blooms By Daisy Dobrijevic What happens on land affects the oceans, and satellites can see it all unfold.
This year's giant Antarctic ozone hole possibly due to climate change By Tereza Pultarova A giant ozone hole has opened up over Antarctica this year and climate change might be the cause.
Cosmic objects with strange orbits discovered beyond Neptune By Stephanie Pappas A six-year search of space beyond the orbit of Neptune has netted 461 newly discovered objects, including four that could shed light on Planet Nine.
Inspiration4 crew planning ultrasounds, microbe samples and more to understand health during flight By Amy Thompson The crew of the first-ever all-civilian orbital spaceflight will conduct medical experiments during the flight that will help researchers better understand spaceflight's effects on the human body.
