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The first rovers to explore an asteroid just sent photos home

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has deployed a pair of rovers to the surface of asteroid Ryugu.

By Lisa Grossman | 6:30pm, September 24, 2018

Astrobiology

News | Astrobiology

What does Mars’ lake mean for the search for life on the Red Planet?

By Lisa Grossman | 1:56pm, July 27, 2018

News | Astrobiology

Mars (probably) has a lake of liquid water

By Lisa Grossman | 10:00am, July 25, 2018

News | Astrobiology

Curiosity finds that Mars’ methane changes with the seasons

By Lisa Grossman | 2:00pm, June 07, 2018
Astronomy

News in Brief | Astronomy

Japan has launched a miniature space elevator

By Lisa Grossman | 9:50am, September 24, 2018

News | Astronomy

Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest material in the universe

By Emily Conover | 10:49am, September 14, 2018

Soapbox | Astronomy

Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins big physics prize for 1967 pulsar discovery

By Lisa Grossman | 5:25pm, September 06, 2018
Cosmology

Feature | Cosmology

The ecosystem that controls a galaxy’s future is coming into focus

By Lisa Grossman | 7:00am, July 12, 2018

Mystery Solved | Cosmology

On Jupiter, lightning flashes from storms swirling at the poles

By Leah Rosenbaum | 12:00pm, June 19, 2018

News in Brief | Cosmology

These stars may have been born only 250 million years after the Big Bang

By Laurel Hamers | 1:00pm, May 16, 2018
Exoplanets

News in Brief | Exoplanets

The TESS space telescope has spotted its first exoplanet

By Lisa Grossman | 5:23pm, September 18, 2018

News | Exoplanets

Astronomers saw the first mass eruption from a star that’s not the sun

By Lisa Grossman | 9:00am, August 07, 2018

News | Exoplanets

Next to its solar twins, the sun stands out

By Lisa Grossman | 12:00pm, August 03, 2018
Particle Physics

Feature | Particle Physics

Three new physics experiments could revamp the standard model

By Emily Conover | 9:30am, September 19, 2018

Science Ticker | Particle Physics

Early tests pave the way for a giant neutrino detector

By Emily Conover | 2:41pm, September 18, 2018

News | Particle Physics

Electrons surf protons’ waves in a new kind of particle accelerator

By Emily Conover | 1:00pm, August 29, 2018
Planetary Science

Science Visualized | Planetary Science

The ghosts of nearly two dozen icy volcanoes haunt dwarf planet Ceres

By Lisa Grossman | 11:00am, September 17, 2018

News in Brief | Planetary Science

Saturn has two hexagons, not one, swirling around its north pole

By Christopher Crockett | 9:00am, September 06, 2018

News in Brief | Planetary Science

Jupiter’s magnetic field is surprisingly weird

By Christopher Crockett | 1:04pm, September 05, 2018

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