Astronomy

This hellish planet could come equipped with “lava oceans”

This is your only chance to see newly discovered Comet Leonard

This Star Trek planet could reveal hyper-intelligent alien life

Before and after: Curiosity rover panorama reveals the enormity of Mars

This unexpected force may be responsible for life on Earth

Cosmic ray discovery both confirms and complicates Viking legend

"WTF" Science Discoveries of 2021

Exercise has one overlooked evolutionary benefit for humans

Look: Supermassive black holes close to Earth predicted to collide

Look: An asteroid 3 times as tall as the Empire State Building is wobbling to Earth next month

Curiosity captures a stunning view of Mars' mountainous terrain

Geminids: You need to watch the fiery fragments of an asteroid fall to Earth

Mars could get an artificial magnetic field from an out-there source

263 new telescopes could be built in North America for one wondrous reason

The Moon’s surface could provide oxygen for 8 billion people

NASA's DART launch and more: Understand the world through 9 images

Human life on the Moon could depend on a substance deadly to animals on Earth

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test: Launch time, how to watch, and asteroid impact

Inverse Longreads: Longform articles from Inverse

One ignored factor is cited as making Mars feel like home

NASA finds ancient lava flows deep below Mars’ surface

New technology could enable humans to travel at 7 million MPH

A new telescope may finally find a livable planet around nearby Alpha Centauri

Have aliens visited Earth? These scientists want to look for their trash

Jessica Watkins joins Crew-4 and more: Understand the world through 8 images

December 2021 celestial events: How to see 3 planets in the evening twilight

Look: 7 strange facts unlocking secrets of nebulae

Planet 9: Old data could uncover the Solar System's newest world, 38 years late

What a fusion breakthrough means for the future of clean energy

Look: NASA’s Mars rover just uncovered “something no one has seen”

Look: Scientists discover rare planet orbiting 2 suns

Tardigrades: Why water bears could be the first interstellar astronauts

Bambi has Covid-19

Kamo'oalewa: Why an asteroid “doing something weird” is linked to Earth's Moon

NASA Crew-3: 8 moments from the long-awaited SpaceX launch

Watch: Black hole 11 times bigger than the Sun discovered among young stars

Dark matter: A twist is challening our understanding of this cosmic mystery

Scientists link an odd reaction to a barrier in the center of the Milky Way

You need to watch the fall's most unpredictable meteor shower in November

Scientists find something in the ancient universe that’s in all our bones

How this winter’s Eiffel Tower sized asteroid compares to other cosmic flybys

Element found in human teeth discovered in distant galaxy

Look: Largest-ever catalog of gravitational-wave events

Sending a tiny telescope past Saturn may solve mysteries of the universe

Water is important on Mars, but not for the one reason you think

3 jaw-dropping reasons you should be terrified of black holes

Decadal survey: 4 new major space projects that rival the James Webb Space Telescope

What organic molecules found on Mars mean for the existence of life

Scientists just found water in the most distant part of the universe so far

Polluted dead stars reveal exoplanets are more diverse than we realized