This Piping-Hot Rocky World Looks Surprisingly Wet
The Webb Space Telescope recently trained its perceptive gaze on a rocky exoplanet about 26 light-years from Earth and found that it appears to have water vapor in its atmosphere—a…
Jupiter Moon Probe Switches On Science Instrument for the First Time
An illustration of the JUICE spacecraft around Jupiter and its moons. Illustration: ESA It’s been less than two weeks since the European Space Agency’s (ESA) JUICE mission began its journey…
New Image of M87 Black Hole Shows a ‘Fluffier’ Ring and Its High-Speed Jet
The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of radio telescopes around the world, has produced fresh observations of the black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87. First Full-Color Images…
Martian Core Revealed by Deep-Traveling Seismic Waves From Planet’s Far Side
Scientists have detected sound waves moving through Mars’ core for the first time, offering new clues to the composition of the fourth planet from the Sun. What Is Planet Nine…
Physicists Create the Fattest Schrödinger’s Cat Ever
Picture a cat. I’m assuming you’re imagining a live one. It doesn’t matter. You’re wrong either way—but you’re also right. What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft | Techmodo…
Samples From Deep Ocean Trench Contain Alarming Levels of Industrial Chemicals
Decades after manufacturers have stopped producing a class of harmful chemicals once used in electrical equipment, traces of these chemicals have found in a deep sea trench. Lower Drought Conditions…
Upgraded View of ‘Fuzzy’ Supermassive Black Hole Is a Shade More Menacing
Using machine learning, a team of researchers has enhanced the first image ever taken of a distant black hole. Importantly, the newly updated image shows the full resolution of the…
New Map of Dark Matter Validates Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Scientists using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have made a detailed map of dark matter’s distribution across a quarter of the sky. First Full-Color Images From Webb…
New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or…
See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus Hubble
About 340 years ago, a brilliant light appeared in Earth’s night sky—a distant star had died in an enormous explosion. That light, which we now know is from the supernova…