On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection...
How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or...
In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor...
Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding mysteries that challenge...
On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory,...
The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and...
On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in...
The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the University...
Our solar system dwells in a low-density environment called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), filled by a tenuous, million-degree hot...
by Anne J. Manning, Harvard Gazette Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years...
Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion...
