The harder you hit something—a ball, a walnut, a geode—the more likely it is to break open. Or, if it...
Imagine you go to a theme park with your family and you ask a park employee to take a group...
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are evolved neutron stars with short spin periods that have gone through a long period of mass...
A mathematical model developed by space medicine experts from The Australian National University (ANU) could be used to predict whether...
An international team of researchers came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment....
When scientists unveiled humanity’s historic first image of a black hole in 2019—depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery...
Stunning new images created by Keele researchers highlight the turbulent flow of energy inside distant stars. They were created using...
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after...
Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space opportunity: to name a...
Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and...
Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the moon. It was not until Galileo’s time, however, that scientists really began...
Ever since humans could first observe sunspots about 400 years ago, we’ve been using them to try to define the...
