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On the right is an image of a fresh Martian impact crater taken by NASA's HiRISE instrument. On the left is the extent of an ejecta blanket according to computer simulations of impacts. Credit: Brown University

Martian Craters Reveal Hidden Subsurface Secrets Through Ejecta Patterns

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph). This artist’s concept depicts one of the probes speeding away. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA Brings Voyager 1 Back to Life After Two Decades of Silence

This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior. A new study suggests coronae are the locations of several types of tectonic activity. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin

Ongoing Tectonic Activity on Venus Revealed Through Mysterious Coronae

These images of Titan were taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on July 11, 2023 (top row) and the ground-based W.M. Keck Observatories on July 14, 2023 (bottom row). They show methane clouds (denoted by the white arrows) appearing at different altitudes in Titan’s northern hemisphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. M. Keck Observatory.

First Evidence of Cloud Convection on Titan’s Northern Hemisphere

This artist’s concept shows the moon’s hot interior and volcanism about 2 to 3 billion years ago. It is thought that volcanic activity on the lunar near side (the side facing Earth) helped create a landscape dominated by vast plains called mare, which are formed by molten rock that cooled and solidified. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

New NASA Studies Reveal Secrets Beneath the Moon and Vesta Without Landing

For the first time, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a sun-like star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. All the frozen water detected by Webb is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk. The majority of the water ice observed is found where it’s coldest and farthest from the star. The closer to the star the researchers looked, the less water ice they found. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

Webb Telescope Finds Frozen Water in Planetary System Beyond Our Sun

The first visible-light image of a green aurora on Mars, left, taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover. A comparison image, right, shows the night sky without the aurora but featuring the Martian moon Deimos. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI

Perseverance Mars Rover Captures First-Ever Martian Aurora in Visible Light

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Lack of Eye Contact from Parents May Signal Suicide Risk in Young Girls

The researchers' de novo protein design workflow begins with using a helical bundle as a framework for the new protein, left, using AI to design the amino acid sequences required for the desired protein structures, X-ray crystallography to assess the resulting protein structure, and further refinement to the design using tried-and-true methods and 'chemical intuition," until the optimal design is reached, right. Credit: University of California - Santa Barbara

Scientists Design Enzymes from Scratch That Could Revolutionize Chemistry

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Black Hole Collisions Unlock Hidden Geometry of the Universe

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Astronomers Unlock the Secrets of Cosmic Twins in Planetary Science

Profiles (top) and dynamic spectra (bottom) of three PSR J0901−4046 pulses showing evidence of variable frequency-dependence of sub-pulses. Black profiles are averaged over the entire combined MeerKAT band, while the blue and orange profiles are averaged over the L-band and UHF-band only. The detection time (UTC) for each pulse is listed at the top of each panel. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.04430

PSR J0901−4046: The Mysterious Ultra-Slow Pulsar Defying Cosmic Expectations

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Birth Cries of Distant Worlds: Astronomers Spot Five Growing Baby Planets

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How Medicines Work in the Body: A Scientific Overview

Gene Therapy Explained: Fixing DNA to Cure Disease

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What Is Precision Medicine? Tailoring Treatment with Science

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Stem Cells: The Hope and Hype in Medicine

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How CRISPR Is Revolutionizing Genetic Medicine

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The Role of AI in Diagnosing Diseases

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What Is Robotic Surgery? The Future of the OR

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How MRI and CT Scans Work: Medical Imaging Explained

Theropod teeth. (a–e) RCPS-VH2006 and (f–i) RCPS-VH2007. Credit: Yu et al. 2025

New Dinosaur Teeth Found in China Reveal Uncharted Cretaceous Species

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Womb Warriors: Unveiling the Untold Stories of Pregnancy in the Viking Age

Fragment of the discovered relief. Credit: Aaron Schmitt

Monumental Assyrian Relief Depicting King and Deities Discovered in Nineveh

Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni. Credit: Art by Danielle Dufault, ROM

Paleontologists Discover 506-Million-Year-Old Predator in Burgess Shale

Optical images of the investigated X-ray sources in the r filter from the PanSTARRS PS1 survey. Credit: Astronomy Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1134/S106377372470018X

Astronomers Discover 11 New Active Galactic Nuclei

A screen shot from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio that visualizes the Earth's magnetosphere being hit by a geomagnetic storm that happened throughout May 10–11, 2024. The powerful geomagnetic storm resulted in auroras being viewed in relatively low latitude areas around the globe. Kyushu University researchers found that sporadic Es were also enhanced during these storms. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5435.

Invisible Storms in the Sky Reveal a New Solar Secret

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Psychedelics and Faith: New Study Finds They Disrupt Religion, Not Deepen It

Ground-station-to-satellite (A), and orbiting observers in an equatorial plane of a rotating black hole (B). As depicted in (C-E), wave vectors of photons are aligned with the local third axis, eφ, i.e., transformed to the standard frame. For the cases of Earth-satellite-in-polar-orbits and observers in the equatorial plane of M87* black hole, WRAs are plotted as in (F) and (G), respectively. The original image of Earth used in A is obtained from Yeongkwang Kim. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-71203-x

Light May Unlock the Quantum Gravity Puzzle, Say Physicists

Epigraph induces robustly cross-protective immunity in mouse model. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59182-7

End of Annual Flu Shots? New Universal Vaccine Could Make Them Obsolete