January 2025

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CREST) Institute and adjunct assistant …

According to the Giant Impact Hypothesis, the Moon formed from a massive impact between a primordial Earth and a Mars-sized object (Theia) …

Every exoplanet discovery is an opportunity to refine models of planet formation, solar system architecture, habitable zones, and habitability itself. Each new …

The odds of a sizable asteroid striking Earth are small, but they’re never zero. Large asteroids have struck Earth in the past, …

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its …

Magneto-optical microscope image of a skyrmion, which is the dark spot marked by a blue circle, in a ring of magnetic material. …

From interstellar lightsails to laboratory-based lightsail platforms. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01605-w The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft …

Montelirio beads in situ.(C) Detail of the threaded beads on attire UE 344 next to the bones of Individual 343. Credit: David …

Artist’s depiction of a new strategy for measuring the direction of magnetic fields by exposing a cell containing roughly a hundred billion …

Novel propulsion systems are one of the most important ways to push space exploration forward – literally. Traditional propulsion systems, like chemical …