A Dead Star’s Iron Is Still Falling on Earth. We Found the Proof in Antarctic Ice.
Iron-60 from a dead star is still falling on Earth, found in 80,000-year-old Antarctic ice. Our Solar System is drifting through a supernova's ash.
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JWST Reads the Surface of a Rocky Exoplanet for the First Time
Image: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI Forty-eight light-years away, a world orbits so close to its star that a year lasts eleven hours. It is tidally locked, one face...
An AI Found 118 Planets Hiding in Data We Thought We Understood
A new AI pipeline called RAVEN swept through four years of NASA TESS data and found 118 worlds astronomers had missed, including the first measurement...
Roman Space Telescope Is Complete: 100 Times Hubble's View, Fall 2026 Launch
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is fully assembled for its fall 2026 launch. Surveying 100× more sky than Hubble, it will reshape how we see the...
Artemis III Won't Land on the Moon. Here's What Actually Changed.
By the IMBRIUM Editorial Team Image: NASA/JSC. Artist concept of Artemis astronauts on the lunar surface. The scene this image depicts has now been moved...
The Ice Is Still There: What VIPER Was Supposed to Find at the Lunar South Pole
Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett There are places on the Moon that have not seen sunlight in billions of years. They sit at the bottom of craters...
Io Was Hiding Its Fire in Plain Sight
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM/MSSS. Chors Patera on Io, October 2023. Io is already the most volcanic world we know. It has no craters because new lava erases...
A Black Hole Slept for 100 Million Years. Now It’s Erupting Across a Million Light-Years.
Image: Kumari et al. 2026 / Royal Astronomical Society / LOFAR / uGMRT Somewhere in the universe, 100 million years passed in silence. A supermassive...
The Universe's First Stars Left a Signal. JWST Just Found It.
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), M. Rieke (University of Arizona), D. Eisenstein (CfA) Every element...