An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of...
Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new...
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta’s...
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would...
Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science...
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into plasma kinetic energy...
“Killer electrons” that travel at nearly light speed inside Earth’s Van Allen belts—the zone that surrounds the planet and traps...
When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted...
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers...
A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and dynamical evolution...
