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Friday, January 30 2026 •Matt

Moss could survive in the deadly vacuum of space for 15 years

Moss could survive in space for up to 15 years, according to international researchers, who sent moss spore samples to the International Space Station, where they survived in the vacuum of space for nine months before returning to Earth.
Friday, January 23 2026 •Matt

Apep’s sting: unlocking the mysteries of dying stars’ deadly embrace

Using the James Webb Space Telescope and data from Chile's Very Large Telescope, an international astronomy team has uncovered extraordinary images of a rare stellar system called Apep, showing four distinct dust shells spiralling outward from three massive stars locked in a cosmic dance.
Wednesday, December 17 2025 •Matt

Listening to lightning on Mars

Evidence of lightning on Mars, detected in sounds and electrical signals captured by NASA's Perseverance rover, is presented in a paper published in Nature.
Tuesday, November 25 2025 •Matt

A Martian tale of ice and fire

Explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars may have transported water to equatorial regions where it froze into thick ice, according to computer simulations of the red planet's ancient history by US and Italian researchers.
Monday, June 2 2025 •Matt

A Mix of Life’s Ingredients Found in Asteroid Bennu Sample

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA bases, as well as salts that formed early in the history of Bennu's parent body, according to a pair of studies by international and Australian researchers.
Wednesday, February 26 2025 •Matt

How Saturn’s Rings Might Be Keeping A Youthful Appearance

Even though Saturn's rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space - called micrometeoroids - would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
Thursday, February 20 2025 •Matt

What We Know About Uranus May Be Flawed

The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have occurred during a rare intense wind event, according to international researchers who say this means our scientific understanding of the planet may be flawed.
Tuesday, February 18 2025 •Matt

The Moon looks pretty good for its age

Overseas researchers report new evidence suggesting the Moon is older than we previously thought thanks to a 'remelting' of the Moon's surface around 4.35 billion years ago that may have masked a far older history.
Monday, February 17 2025 •Matt

Ancient Hot Water on Mars Suggests A Habitable Past

New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its past.
Thursday, February 6 2025 •Matt

No Shallow Magma Ocean for Jupiter’s Moon Io

Io doesn't have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, contrary to what was previously thought, despite the fact that it's the most volcanically active body in the solar system according to international researchers..
Wednesday, February 5 2025 •Matt

Evidence Found for Volcanoes on the Dark Side of the Moon

Volcanoes on the dark side of the moon mainly erupted about 2.8 billion years ago, according to fragments of basalt - a type of volcanic rock - in soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission.
Tuesday, February 4 2025 •Matt

Mars May Have Been Home To An Ancient Sea

Minerals on the surface of Mars could be the last remnants of an ancient sea 3.5 billion years ago, according to international researchers. The team say there are features in the southern Utopia region that could be evidence of a coastline, meaning for a short period in the planet's history it could have had an ocean.
Monday, October 21 2024 •Matt

Carbon Dioxide Detected on Pluto’s Moon

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on its surface, according to newly analysed data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Friday, October 18 2024 •Matt

Europa Clipper Launches

At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Falcon Heavy has lofted Europa Clipper off planet Earth bound for Jupiter's icy moon.
Tuesday, June 4 2024 •Matt

Volcanoes on Venus May Still Be Erupting

Volcanic activity on Venus is ongoing and similar to that of Earth, according to new international research published in Nature Astronomy
Tuesday, May 28 2024 •Matt

Gazing Into Our Star’s Past with HP Tau

A new image from The Hubble Space Telescope of ten million year old star HP Tau, has revealed what the early stages of our star might have looked like.