NASA, after a brief communications blackout, has reestablished contact with its Voyager 1 spacecraft, a marvel of engineering launched in 1977 and still hurtling through interstellar space. The reconnection, announced in October, highlights both the resilience of this decades-old spacecraft…
Scientists Say the Moon May Have Been Captured, Not Created
The prevailing theory for decades about the Moon’s formation has been the giant impact hypothesis, which suggests that the Moon was formed from debris ejected after a collision between a Mars-sized planet and the early Earth. However, new research suggests…
Martian Meteorite Hidden in a Drawer Reveals Mars’ Watery Past
Sometimes, groundbreaking discoveries come from the most unexpected places—like a university desk drawer. That’s exactly what happened with the Lafayette Meteorite, a small piece of Martian rock that has helped researchers piece together a chapter of Mars’ geological history. A…
Galactic Makeovers: How the Coma Cluster Transforms Spiral Galaxies
The Coma Cluster is like a cosmic city packed with over a thousand galaxies. If you’ve got a backyard telescope, you can actually spot some of them—check out Caldwell 35 for a start! Most of the galaxies in this cluster…






