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The moon is starting to make a reappearance as we enter a new phase of the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the moon’s visibility. The whole cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA, and these different phases happen as the Sun lights up different parts of the moon whilst it orbits …

The mystery at Jupiter’s heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half of Jupiter’s core material could have mixed up the central region of the gas giant, enough to …

Fast animals get plenty of attention for their incredible feats of speed. But what about animals that move at a slower pace? “We definitely are programmed to think that speed is good,” said James Maclaine, senior curator of fish at the Natural History Museum in London. “For a lot of animals, that doesn’t make any sense to them at all.” …

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s one of the deepest mysteries of the human mind: Do we all see the world the same way? In 1956, three social scientists set out to answer this question. From their offices at Northwestern University, Donald Campbell and …

SpaceX early Sunday launched its 33rd resupply mission to the International Space Station, sending up a Dragon capsule loaded with 2.5 tons of equipment and supplies along with an add-on thruster kit to help maintain the lab’s altitude. Perched atop a workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, commercial resupply mission 33 got underway with a sky-lighting launch from the Cape Canaveral Space …

The melting of Antarctic sea ice may be even worse than we realized. New research suggests that the region is experiencing rapid and abrupt disruptions that could represent a global climate “tipping point,” past which the effects of climate change become irreversible and accelerate in intensity.  “Antarctica is showing worrying signs of rapid change across its ice, ocean and ecosystems,” …

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Mars’ Valles Marineris stretches nearly a quarter of the way around the planet’s equator. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) QUICK FACTS What it is: Candor Chasma, a large canyon on Mars Where it is: Valles Marineris, the biggest canyon network in the solar system When it was shared: Aug. 14, 2025 Mars has a huge network of canyons that stretches …

When searching for the unknown, classic physics wisdom holds that a bigger detector boosts the chances of discovery. A physicist is taking that advice to heart, advancing a bold plan to use none other than Ganymede—Jupiter’s largest moon—as a dark matter detector on an astronomical scale. Dark matter refers to the “invisible” mass that supposedly constitutes 85% of the universe. …

In a new study, scientists began pondering a pretty wild question: What if black holes can convert dead star matter into dark energy, the mystery force driving the acceleration of the expansion of the universe? If so, then it just might explain a multitude of “hiccups” in our models of the universe. This new theory proposes that black holes could …