Articles by

Lisa Grossman

Space missions spanned the solar system in 2024

From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts...

Astronomers detect the first astrosphere around a sunlike star

BOSTON — For the first time, astronomers have detected an astrosphere around a star like the sun....

A spacecraft duo will fly in formation to create artificial solar eclipses

A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European...

Mars’ potato-shaped moons could be the remains of a shredded asteroid

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red...

A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery

The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the...

Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft...

A cosmic census triples the known number of black holes in dwarf galaxies

A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known...

A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th century supernova

Some 6,500 light-years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tendrils of hot sulfur. Nobody...