Scientists Fired Tardigrades From A Gun To See If They Could Survive Space Travel

Most volcanic eruptions on Earth involve liquid rock. In some places, including Enceladus, you get cryovolcanism — where slushy ices flow like lava. What about liquid metal? Ferrovolcanism is thought to be common in space but has never been seen, so volcanologists on Earth decided to make their own.

Rare plutonium from space found in deep-sea crust

A revolutionary method to drastically reduce stray light on space telescopes