Articles by

Lisa Grossman

Two privately-owned spacecraft make contact from the moon

This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more. This year’s hot destination...

The Milky Way’s black hole is constantly bubbling

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma...

A private mission to Venus aims to look for signs of life

BOSTON —Droplets of Venus’ clouds may someday come to Earth. Researchers are testing a device that can...

Earth had new, temporary radiation rings last year

On May 10, 2024, the strongest solar storm in 20 years sparked auroras on Earth that were...

‘Uncertain, anxious, fearful.’ That’s the mood at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting

BOSTON — The official theme of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,...

A fast radio burst from a dead galaxy puzzles astronomers

A staccato blast of electromagnetic energy has been tracked to an old, dead galaxy for the first...

The moon’s two grand canyons formed in less than 10 minutes

A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point...

A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — A bright blip in a distant galaxy may link two mysterious categories of...