New images reveal Betelgeuseβs buddy star ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 28 July 2026 at 13:00 A century of hints has suggested the famed red supergiant had a star pal but seeing it amid Betelgeuseβs brightness has been hard β until now.
What kinds of black holes exist β and how are they different? ScienceNews By: Mandana Tadayon Β· Lisa Grossman 24 July 2026 at 14:00 Scientists have identified four types of black holes, classified mostly by their masses. But these mysterious objects continue to challenge our understanding of the universe.
Different moon rocks tell different tales about a long-ago bombardment ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 23 July 2026 at 19:12 Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.
A newly found world blurs the boundary between planet and moon ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 22 July 2026 at 16:00 The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers arenβt sure if itβs a planet, a moon β or something else entirely.
This βexotic weirdoβ exoplanet has a rocky surface and an atmosphere ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 16 July 2026 at 19:00 Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet β a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system.
The 2024 New Jersey meteorite contains amino acids ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 15 July 2026 at 19:00 The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth.
A quasar breaks the record for most distant supermassive black hole ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 14 July 2026 at 14:00 The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.
Meet the Milky Wayβs puffiest planets ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 13 July 2026 at 13:30 Two βsuperpuffβ planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy.
NASA seems to be backing away from hunting for life on Mars ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 16 June 2026 at 14:00 Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASAβs shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.
NASA declares MAVEN, its Mars atmosphere orbiter, dead ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 5 June 2026 at 18:06 Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planetβs atmosphere β and why the world lost its water.
Europa may not vent water into space after all ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 29 May 2026 at 14:00 The debate could reopen in 2030 when NASAβs Europa Clipper spacecraft gets the closest view of the icy moonβs surface.
Solar flares may show predictable warning signs hours before erupting ScienceNews By: Lisa Grossman 26 May 2026 at 16:00 Scientists spotted patterns hours before a major solar flare, a discovery that could help forecast dangerous eruptions.