Jeff Hecht

Perseverance Reaches Rim of Jezero Crater

It’s been a long upward climb for NASA’s premier rover. But the commanding view — and the geology — were worth it.

Oldest and Largest Impact Crater Found on Venus

Scientists have found possibly the oldest and largest crater on Venus — and it's like none they've ever seen on our sister planet.

We’ve Found the Source of Most Meteorites

Scientists have traced 70% of meteorite falls to three collisions that occurred in the asteroid belt within the past 40 million years.

Did a Ring of Rocks and Dust Orbit Earth Before the Dinosaurs Roamed?

A team of scientists thinks a clustering of ancient impact craters points to a temporary ring around Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

Ed Stone, Former Director of JPL and Voyager Project Scientist, Dies | NASA Jet Propulsion Labora...

NASA's Lucy Mission Reveals Asteroid's Strange Moon

The asteroid Dinkinesh surprised NASA’s Lucy mission when it turned out to have a moon. Now, scientists are taking a closer look at the pair’s formation.

Worried about dementia? Here's why I'm ditching GPS for a road atlas - ZDNET

The thinning of the hippocampi, a part of the brain responsible for spatial navigation, has been conclusively linked to the onset of dementia due to its under-utilization thanks to an over-dependence...

Amateur Astronomers Caught Sungrazing Comet during Solar Eclipse

Wide-field photos of the total solar eclipse taken by several astronomers along the path of totality, caught a comet approaching the Sun.

Phorusrhacids: Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs' demise | New...

Two fossil claws found on Seymour Island reveal that phorusrhacids, or terror birds, lived in Antarctica 50 million years ago and were probably the apex predator

NASA's DART Impact Reshaped the Asteroid Dimorphos

Models of the NASA's DART impact reshaping the asteroid moon Dimorphos show that this object is "rubble all the way down."