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Astronomers just confirmed the first atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone — and the gas leaking from LHS 1140b is the part that actually matters
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (1196+ words) A faint wisp of helium bleeding into space just proved that rocky worlds can keep their atmospheres alive—rewriting what we thought we knew about habitability beyond Earth. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 Astronomers have detected…...
Energy created in the Sun’s core can spend around 170,000 years bouncing through the radiative zone before reaching the outer layers — but once released as sunlight, it crosses 150 million kilometres to Earth in just over eight minutes
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (849+ words) The light warming your face this morning left the Sun's core when mammoths still roamed the Earth. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published July 19, 2026 Sunlight needs only a little over eight minutes to cross the space between the Sun and…...
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon, and every night since, observatories have been bouncing lasers off them to measure the exact distance, which is why we know the Moon is drifting away at about the rate your fingernails grow
2+ week, 2+ day ago (823+ words) One of the quietest Apollo experiments is still doing science without a battery, a radio, or a moving part. It is not a telescope on the Moon. It is not a buried instrument or a forgotten antenna. It is a…...
Tiny Asteroid Donaldjohanson Tumbles Because Sunlight Slowed It Down
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (25+ words) For 59 days before the encounter, the asteroid would not hold still. Lucy's long-range camera kept watching this faint smudge of reflected light from...
How a Mars Life Detector Traced Meteorite Grime to Car Exhaust
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (425+ words) ESA rover Rosalind Franklin The instrument is MOMA, the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer, and it is due to ride aboard the European rover Rosalind Franklin when she lands in 2030. Her job is to read the chemistry of Martian rock and…...
Ten-Kilo Telescope Built Like a Crab's Eye Could Finally Map the Whole Moon's Chemistry
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (113+ words) Look closely at a lobster sometime and you will notice its eyes do something ours cannot. Instead of a single lens, each eye is a dense grid of tiny...
New, Shortest Path to the Moon Turns Out to Run Past the Moon First
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (236+ words) The trick, then, is finding the cheapest on-ramp to one of those highways. And this is where the team’s approach diverges sharply from previous work. The Moon-leg burn came in just 0.767 metres per second above the theoretical minimum. Almost nowhere…...