The fastest spacecraft in our solar system has captured wild footage inside the sun’s atmosphere. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — a craft flying much closer to the sun than any previous mission — witnessed massive “vortex-like structures” in our star’s
Author: Mark Kaufman
The U.S. is exploring a railroad for the moon. It has a good reason.
The first U.S. transcontinental railroad, completed with a spike hammered into the track in 1869, transformed the nation. Perhaps the same will happen on the moon. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA — an ambitious federal innovations division
Scientists find clear proof that a supervolcano won’t wipe humans out
Thankfully, it’s rare for supervolcanoes to erupt — the last one exploded 26,500 years ago. Yet even when such a potent geologic event happens again (there’s no sign of any supervolcanoes like Yellowstone stirring, and we’d have at least many
Mars may have once held a shocking amount of water, scientists find
It’s clear that Mars once gushed with water. Today, aerial views of the Red Planet’s Jezero crater (shown below) reveal that water once poured into this basin, leaving behind telltale signs of rivers, streams, and a great lake. Some three
What’s the ‘best’ place to see the solar eclipse? Experts explain.
Every total solar eclipse is astonishing — if you can see it. The looming eclipse on April 8, 2024, will allow tens of millions of Americans in the path of totality the opportunity to see the moon completely block the
Scientists find planet with a tail 150 times longer than the Mississippi
There are some strange planets out in deep space. Now, scientists have found a planet with a tail at least 350,000 miles (563,270 kilometers) long. That’s longer than the distance between Earth and the moon, and about 150 times longer