Space Frontiers
Space missions, telescope discoveries, orbital records and planetary exploration
When should we listen for alien signals? Scientists turn to game theory
For the first time, scientists searched the anti-solar point for timed alien signals.
How Jupiter’s storms may build a crown of spinning cyclones
A storm-friendly feedback may help build Jupiter’s long-lasting polar cyclone clusters.
Jupiter’s north pole
Astronaut and Earth
The International Space Station is set to get its eighth and final solar array.
A tiny shift exposes a cold brown dwarf masquerading as an early galaxy
A tiny shift over 3.5 years revealed a nearby brown dwarf, not an ancient galaxy.
NASA smashed into an asteroid. Now Hera is closing in to see what happened
Hera is closing in on the asteroid NASA hit to learn why it moved so much.
NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to reach a historic one-light-day milestone
Voyager 1 will soon be so far away that a reply takes 48 hours.
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IceCube’s cosmic-ray leftovers could become an Antarctic climate record
IceCube could add a rare Antarctic climate record—if its readings stay stable to 0.3% per decade.
South Pole, Antarctica 
Large Hadron Collider reveals evidence of Big Bang matter in surprisingly small collisions
Four LHC teams found signs of Big Bang matter in oxygen and neon collisions.
Queen's University Belfast students find Neptune's elusive Trojan asteroids
Rubin's early data revealed two confirmed members of Neptune's hidden asteroid group.
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The AI never flies the spacecraft—and that is the point
The AI can suggest spacecraft controls, but only a design with a checked proof gets through.
Dinosaur blood—oldest discovery rewrites what fossils can reveal about the past
Scientists confirmed blood in a dinosaur bone that is 115 million years old.
Northwestern Brazil
Scientists build whole-Earth simulation to help find life on other planets
A lifeless Earth model spans 5 billion years to help flag signs of alien life.
University of Washington, Seattle
CubeSat achieves challenging laser link to ground
A small Athens-built satellite sent a laser signal to a ground station just weeks after launch.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Overlooked material in Ryugu and meteorites may explain how water spared ancient chemistry
A little-known mineral-like material may explain how water changed Ryugu without erasing its past.
Kanazawa University
IceCube detects ghost particles with 10 billion times the energy of solar neutrinos
IceCube spotted neutrinos carrying 10 billion times the energy of solar neutrinos.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks historic record after traveling 28 miles
Perseverance has driven 28.10 miles on Mars, farther than any vehicle on another world.
Mars dust may be less abrasive than lunar dust, spacesuit samples suggest
Mars dust may wear down spacesuits less than the Moon's dust does.
Scientists say a forgotten particle may explain why the universe exists
A forgotten neutrino may explain why matter—and life—survived the Big Bang.
This oddball reflective lava world is challenging to understand
A 37-hour JWST watch found an atmosphere on a planet that should have lost it.
New gel fuel could make rocket and satellite propulsion easier to control
The gel's thickness drops about 100 times when pushed, yet it stays stable in storage.
Concordia University, Montreal