by rpuser | Jan 20, 2026 | Space
Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth’s Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research suggested rivers and seas once existed on Mars, raising the question of whether it might have once been capable of supporting life. However,...
by rpuser | Jan 20, 2026 | Space
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole’s immediate surroundings, NASA announced Tuesday (Jan. 13). The snapshots show that the intense infrared glow in active galaxies comes not from powerful outflows, as...
by rpuser | Jan 20, 2026 | Space
China is getting close to launching a large space telescope to orbit along with its Tiangong space station, and scientists have just completed a full observation simulation in preparation. The bus-sized Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) — also known as Xuntian,...
by rpuser | Jan 20, 2026 | Space
The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare on Jan. 18 that hurled a colossal, fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward Earth. That CME has now arrived, triggering severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions far earlier...
by rpuser | Jan 20, 2026 | Space
A colossal coronal mass ejection (CME) has struck Earth, triggering severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions that could push the northern lights much farther south than usual tonight (Jan. 19–20). The impact, confirmed by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center,...
