Universe

On the journey to the Moon, dark-adapted Apollo crews averaged one unexplained flash of light every 2.9 minutes — roughly 20 per hour — from something that had no business existing behind closed eyes

In one drilled Martian rock, Curiosity found 21 organic molecules — seven never before detected on Mars — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure that belongs to the same chemical family as precursors to RNA and DNA.

In the Martian sky, the sun appears roughly two-thirds the size it looks from Earth, and at sunset it glows blue rather than red — the same dust particles that make daytime skies pink on Mars scatter shorter wavelengths at dusk in exactly the opposite pattern to our atmosphere

We think of Mount Everest as the ultimate mountain, but Olympus Mons on Mars rises nearly three times as high and spreads across a footprint roughly the size of Italy, making Earth’s tallest peak look almost local by comparison.

Titan is the only world besides Earth known to have rivers, lakes, seas, clouds and rain — except its “water” is methane and ethane, flowing across a surface frozen to minus 179 degrees Celsius. And in June 2026, scientists held the first Humans to Titan Summit, beginning to map what a crewed mission to Saturn’s largest moon would actually require.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from California

Astronomers found a third galaxy with almost no dark matter, and all three sit on the same straight line — pointing to a collision that tore ordinary matter loose

From Roar To Whisper: Why Quiet Confidence Is Every Modern Leo’s Superpower

Earth's future revisited as scientists find giant planet survived death of its sun

Breakthrough study confirms solar storms can alter weather on Earth within hours

Unleash Your Inner Lion: The Leo Glow-Up Secrets To Personal Power And Global Success

The Sun accounts for 99.86 percent of all the mass in the entire solar system — meaning that if you took all eight planets, every one of their moons, every asteroid, and every comet, and combined them into a single object, that object would weigh less than one seven-hundredth of the Sun

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified the most diverse set of organic molecules yet found on Mars, including seven never before detected there, from a sample drilled in 2020 and studied for years before the chemistry finally came into focus

Oldest quasars add to ‘perplexing’ space mystery

There is no permanently dark side of the Moon. The far side gets sunlight just like the near side — we simply don’t see it from Earth because the Moon is tidally locked, taking about as long to spin once as it does to orbit us once.

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara may be a surviving shard of a lost Moon-sized world — one that formed beside the young Sun, followed a path unlike Earth or Mars, and was smashed apart while the planets were still being built.

Neuroscientist reveals what living on the moon could do to human mind

Webb has confirmed a galaxy, MoM-z14, whose light left just 280 million years after the Big Bang, after travelling about 13.5 billion years. The shock was not that one galaxy shone 100 times brighter than expected, but that JWST is finding bright galaxies from this era far more often than pre-Webb models predicted, and MoM-z14 even shows unusual nitrogen enrichment, hinting that star formation and chemical evolution were already moving faster than astronomers expected.

Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe

Radiant Powerhouses: Leo Female Celebrities Who Command Attention With Fierce Stardom