NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in Mars’ Jezero Crater in July 2024. Scientists think the spots may indicate that, billions of years ago, ...

The Soviet PFM-1, also known as the butterfly mine for its winged shape, was designed with chilling precision. Dropped from ...

Illustration of the giant planets TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c with host star TOI-791. These planets are roughly the size of ...

This graphic illustrates three different ways that electrons can pair up and flow through rhombohedral pentalayer graphene without resistance. The three different superconducting states (represented ...

For centuries, Saturn’s shimmering rings have captivated astronomers and stargazers alike. Yet their ages and the histories of Saturn’s moons have remained among planetary science’s most tantalizing ...

The planet has a minimum mass just over twice that of Earth and orbits its star at a distance that causes it to receive almost the same amount of starlight as Earth does. The planet joins a growing ...

The number of satellites in orbit around Earth has exploded from fewer than 8,000 satellites before 2019 to over 14,000 now. Many are from SpaceX’s own Starlink network, which a ...