Earth’s Secret Moon Just Came Out of the Shadows After 60 Years
Scientists have just confirmed we’ve been secretly sharing our orbit with a rock at about 62 feet wide (about as wide as a bowling lane is long) and nobody noticed ...
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NASA Is in a Race to the Moon and Might Be Willing to Risk Astronauts to Win
If the Cold War space race had Neil Armstrong’s “one small step” as its capstone, the next space race is shaping up to have a body count. In a frantic ...
This Bizarre Comet Has Our Most Powerful Telescopes Completely Stumped
Scientists have just discovered that an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS is zipping through the solar system—but, like, in a weird way. Weird enough for NASA to keep an eye on ...
Mars Could Be Hiding the Remains of a Dead Planet in Its Core
Beneath Mars’s dull, dusty red exterior lies something hardcore: the fossilized remains of worlds that never got a chance to live. According to a new study in Science, data from ...
NASA Found a Tiny Hidden Moon Orbiting Uranus
Astronomers just spotted a tiny new moon lurking in Uranus’s orbit. The James Webb Space Telescope clocked this barely visible satellite, named S/2025 U1, during a scan on February 2. ...
NASA’s New Boss Wants to Abandon Earth
NASA’s new acting boss, Sean Duffy, yet another Trump administration official who was ripped straight from TV and put in charge of a major government agency, is less a rocket ...
An Interstellar Object in Our Solar System Might Actually Be Glowing
Many interstellar objects are currently heading toward Earth. Perhaps they understand how dire things are here and are offering us a glimmer of hope in the form of total annihilation. ...
Galaxies Caught on Camera Stealing Each Other’s Stars
Roughly 700 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies in the Abell 3667 cluster are mid-collision—and one is slowly bleeding stars into the other. Astronomers have now captured the clearest view ...
A Meteorite Older Than Earth Just Crashed Into an Atlanta House
If you think your week was weird, imagine sitting in your living room when a rock older than the planet crashes through your roof. That’s exactly what happened to a ...
A Blood Moon Is Coming: What to Know About September’s Total Lunar Eclipse
On September 7, the moon will step into Earth’s shadow and emerge stained in deep red. The “blood moon.” It’s the second total lunar eclipse of 2025, and if the ...
