Articles by

Lisa Grossman

The Vera Rubin Observatory is ready to revolutionize astronomy

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest...

A Soviet spacecraft will crash to Earth this month

A Soviet space probe stuck in orbit since a failed 1972 launch is expected to crash to...

A claimed hint of alien life whips up spirited debate

You may have already seen the headlines: Signs of life have reportedly been discovered on an alien...

A NASA rover finally found Mars’ missing carbon

The carbon that once warmed Mars’ atmosphere has been locked in its rusty rocks for millennia.  That’s...

Check out some of the weird rocks that have turned up on Mars

As the Mars rover Perseverance crested the top of Witch Hazel Hill, its operators back on Earth...

JWST spots the earliest sign yet of a distant galaxy reshaping its cosmic environs

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a distant galaxy blowing an unexpected bubble in the gas...

The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own....

New baby pictures of the universe deepen a cosmic mystery

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos strengthen the prevailing model of the universe but deepen...