November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 by Cody

Insight Mission to Mars

Stardust in the Clouds of Venus. April 15, 2026
Venus has been hiding a secret for fifty years. Just below its main cloud deck sits a mysterious layer of haze that spacecraft first detected in the 1970s and nobody could explain where it came from. Now a research team in Japan has finally cracked it, and the answer comes from the last place most […]
Magnetism Frozen in Time. April 15, 2026
Every star you've ever looked at is hiding a magnetic secret and it may have been hiding it since birth. A new theoretical study has connected, for the first time, the magnetic fields detected deep inside dying red giants with the magnetism found at the surfaces of their long dead remnants. These fields may be […]
The Sharpest Eyes on the Sun The Sharpest Eyes on the Sun. April 15, 2026
The Sun is the most studied star in the universe, yet some of its most violent behaviour remains stubbornly out of reach. Solar flares, explosive eruptions that can disrupt satellites, knock out power grids and bathe astronauts in radiation release enormous bursts of X-rays that carry vital clues about what drives them. Now, a team […]
A New Eye Opens at the Top of the World. April 15, 2026
Thirty four years ago, a group of Cornell scientists looked at a remote Chilean mountaintop and imagined what might be built there one day. That day has arrived. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope has just opened its eyes on the universe from one of the most extreme observatory sites ever chosen, and the science it […]
Are Neutrinos Their Own Evil Twins? Part 4: Majorana's Mystery April 15, 2026
In 1937, Ettore Majorana asked a question nobody else was even thinking about: does a particle have to have a distinct antiparticle? For neutrinos — which carry no charge — the answer might be no. They might be their own antiparticles. Deep underground right now, experiments are watching atoms decay, waiting for the signal that […]