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Astronomy

The First Person to Get Hit by Space Junk

Decades later, extraterrestrial rubbish is quickly piling up

January 22, 2026

Tiny Mars has a Big Impact on Our Climate

New research shows the red planet plays an outsized role in Earth’s climate

January 20, 2026

Spaceflight Prematurely Ages Astronauts

New research looks at the effects of spaceflight on biological age

January 17, 2026

Why Europa Might Not Have Life After All

Europa’s seafloor might be “too quiet” to support life

January 14, 2026

How Jupiter and Saturn Dictate Earth’s Oil Deposits

Jurassic mudstones reveal how the heavens impact Earth

January 13, 2026

An Asteroid Impact May Explain Our Lopsided Moon

The crash might have radically transformed the lunar interior

January 13, 2026

Space Exploration Speaks to the Core of Who We Are

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf’s 3 greatest revelations while writing his latest book, The Giant Leap

January 12, 2026

We’re Evolving Beyond This Rock Right Now

Life is already busy making its transition to being interplanetary

January 12, 2026

Rogue Planet Weighed for the First Time

“The galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets”

January 9, 2026

When We Learned Our Universe Is Speeding Up

Violent star blasts pointed to a huge cosmological surprise

January 9, 2026