Boston College scientists have determined a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27-billion years old and derived from a previously unsampled, pristine region of the Red Planet, the team reported recently in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Revealing the age of the meteorite, discovered in Algeria in 2019, adds a previously uncharacterized rock type within a 1.8-billion year data gap in the magmatic and volcanic history of Mars.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has officially launched its twentieth data release (DR20), marking the third data release for the fifth phase of the survey (SDSS-V).

Our Sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow. As a result, the solar wind can interact directly with the upper atmosphere of Mars and gradually strip atmospheric particles into space.

By studying how seismic waves travel through frozen soil on Earth, a University of Maryland geophysicist helped develop a better way to detect water ice on the moon—a critical resource for future astronauts and extended lunar missions.

UCF's College of Medicine has opened a new clinic to help pilots meet all levels of FAA medical requirements to fly safely. 

Black holes are often portrayed as cosmic gluttons that swallow everything that comes too close. But new observations of a dramatic black hole outburst – led by Warwick Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Noel Castro Segura – suggest the reality is much messier.

SAN ANTONIO — July 29, 2025 — NASA’s Juno mission has made the first direct measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter's moon Io, which reveal significant heating in the upper few feet of the most volcanically active world in the solar system.

Despite our knowledge of supermassive blackholes far from complete, astronomers have long known that they produce violent winds. But a recent discovery has shown that these winds are more powerful than previously thought, 100 times more powerful, to be precise. High-precision observations of gas surrounding a black hole 3.4 billion light-years from Earth showed that the winds carry energy across distances of approximately 300,000 light-years, impacting surrounding galaxies. 

A team of astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has observed an extremely rare “wandering” black hole located tens of thousands of light-years from the center of its galaxy.