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The sheer scale of the universe may oftentimes escape everyday description; our “pale blue dot” may sometimes feel miniscule compared with the sheer scale of the rest of the universe. In response to this, Modern Sciences champions the latest in astronomical developments and discoveries, to help us truly understand what lies beyond our blue skies—not just the universe as how we see it, but a universe in which we are a part. “We are made of star stuff,” after all.
Mars: how we discovered two huge, unusual impact craters – and the secrets they unveil
InSight’s dusty solar panel. NASA/JPL Benjamin Fernando, University of Oxford Most of the worlds of our Solar System…
Astronomers have detected another ‘planet killer’ asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way?
Artist’s impression of the asteroid discovered toward the Sun. DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine Steven Tingay, Curtin University If you…
Humans are going back to the Moon, and beyond – but how will we feed them?
NASA JSC/Meghan McArthur Kim Johnson, La Trobe University; Harvey Millar, The University of Western Australia, and Matthew Gilliham,…
A pristine chunk of space rock found within hours of hitting Earth can tell us about the birth of the Solar System
Sarah McMullan / UKFN / Global Fireball Observatory Eleanor K. Sansom, Curtin University At about 10 o’clock on…
Martian Sciences: Three Updates From the Red Planet
The mere thought of exploring our planetary neighbor has moved humanity to make leaps and bounds in its…
We tested Einstein’s theory of gravity on the scale of the universe – here’s what we found
Thousands of galaxies seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Nasa Kazuya Koyama, University of Portsmouth and Levon…
‘One of the greatest damn mysteries of physics’: we studied distant suns in the most precise astronomical test of electromagnetism yet
NASA Michael Murphy, Swinburne University of Technology There’s an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature’s laws…
What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time
Solutions to Einstein’s famous equations back in the 20th century describe ‘wormholes,’ or tunnels through space-time. Mark Garlick/Science…
The Perseverance rover is collecting rock samples from Mars to bring back to Earth
Concept illustration for research robots that could bring samples of Mars rocks to Earth-based labs. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Mariek Schmidt,…
Earth’s oxygen has varied dramatically over time – here’s how our data could help us spot alien life
NASA Alex Krause, UCL and Benjamin J. W. Mills, University of Leeds Are we alone in the universe?…