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On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik jump into the headlines, and boy are there a lot of them! Welcome to the "Survivor: NASA" edition!
A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...
Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...
Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...
"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...
When most people think of our Solar System, they think of the 8 planets officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But what if I told you there are at least 40 planets, and ...
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...
A just-issued monthly report has found the first six months of 2025 are pacing just behind the record warm year of 2024. Here ...