After a long struggle with Martian dust, NASA’s InSight probe has calmed down

Zoom in / This is probably the last image that InSight took on Mars and was…

A new type of fractal has been discovered in magnetic ice: ScienceAlert

Fractal patterns can be found everywhere from snowflakes to snowflakes Lightning to the jagged edges of…

A NASA robot sends out one of the saddest tweets I’ve ever seen

picture: NASA InSight – or less elegantly, Indoor Exploration with Seismic Investigations, Geodesy Mission and Heat…

“Sea monster” fossils provide evidence of ichthyosaurs migrating 230 million years ago

Comment on this story Suspension Paleontologists think they have solved a decades-old mystery: How did at…

Two nearby Earth-like worlds have been found in the sweet spot for survival: ScienceAlert

In the search for life on other planets, two promising leads have just opened: Astronomers have…

Two scientists orbiting a nearby star could be more than half water: ScienceAlert

It appears that two worlds orbit a small star 218 light-years away of a type unlike…

Image from NASA’s Webb Telescope reveals early star formation in ‘rare’ discovery

James Webb Space Telescope The team announced Thursday that scientists have detected dozens of energetic jets…

The Perseverance rover is about to have its first big mission on Mars

A version of this story appeared in the CNN science newsletter Theory of Wonder. to get…

SpaceX is sending two communications satellites into orbit for its 200th launch

SpaceX carried out its 200th orbital mission on Friday (Dec. 16), sending up a pair of…

Watch a SpaceX rocket launch 2 communications satellites into orbit today (December 16)

Update at 6:31 PM ET: SpaceX has successfully launched two SES satellites into the clock 5:48…