Articles by

Lisa Grossman

50 years ago, astronomers saw the surface of a distant star for the first time

Surface features of a distant star — Science News, December 21, 1974 & December...

What will space exploration look like under Trump?

The future of U.S. space exploration and NASA-funded science is up in the air as President-elect Donald...

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...