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An artist's impression of a superflare.
Space & Spaceflight

Alarming Study Finds New Evidence That the Sun Can Produce Catastrophic ‘Superflares’

These explosive events can be more powerful than trillions of hydrogen bombs.

NASA’s Curiosity rover took this selfie from the Martian surface on October 25, 2020, after drilling the fateful rock sample containing seven ancient organic molecules.
Space & Spaceflight

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for...

Artist’s concept depicting Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet detected to date, still growing within the disk of gas and dust surrounding its young host star.
Space & Spaceflight

Astronomers Just Found the Youngest Planet Ever Seen. It Shouldn’t Be So Huge

Elias 2-24 b challenges even our best models of planet formation.

A zoomed-in image of the first photons of starlight captured by the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope's Wide Field Instrument.
Science

NASA’s New $4 Billion Space Telescope Just Saw Starlight for the First Time. Here’s What It Saw

Roman joins Hubble and Webb as humanity’s eyes in space.

Overhead Mcgetchin Crater Lro Moon
Science

Something Crashed Into the Moon in 2024, Leaving a Curiously Cold, ‘Once in a Century’ Crater

Scientists working with NASA to study the largest new crater ever found on the Moon say that it...

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink delivered a keynote address during the 2026 Air, Space and Cyber Conference.
Science

The US Put Weapons in Space. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The Air Force's unusually candid statement may have been a way to send a message to potential adversaries.

An artist's depiction of a lunar base.
Science

Musk Wants a Self-Growing Moon City in 10 Years. Here’s When the Water Runs Out

A new study casts doubt on humanity's ability to live and work on the lunar surface.

An image of gullies with a sprinkle of frost (shown in white) observed during Martian springtime by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera in 2019.
Science

Scientists Thought Ancient Water Carved Martian Gullies. New Analysis Says Otherwise

Turns out Mars' mysterious gullies likely aren't evidence of water, after all.