Water plays a crucial role in human survival on the lunar surface, thus attracting extensive research attention. Prof. Wang Junqiang’s...
An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when...
An unusual pair of 10-billion-year-old stars, formed when the Milky Way was young, are visiting from the farthest reaches of...
Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently. Whether it was a...
A longstanding ‘conspiracy’ in astronomy—that stars and dark matter are interacting in inexplicable ways—has been overturned by an international team...
Thanks to observations by the Solar Occultation in the Infrared (SOIR) instrument on the Venus Express space probe of the...
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray...
Planets are bodies that orbit a star and have sufficient gravitational mass that they form themselves into roughly spherical shapes...
Researchers using Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have identified new details about the size...
Monash University astronomers have contributed to a breakthrough in understanding the dramatic fate of stars that wander too close to...
We know that the Earth has an iron core surrounded by a mantle of silicate bedrock and water (oceans) on...
Researchers have identified the specific locations from which most of the approximately 200 Martian meteorites originate. They’ve traced the meteorites...
