A University of California Riverside (UCR) astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet...
A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University undergraduate student Emma Softich, has discovered a rare pair of brown...
Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks...
Planets like Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, with global magnetic fields of their own, are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped...
Using the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered the first example of a binary system where a star...
Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive...
The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international...
An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the center...
Stars are giant factories that produce most of the elements in the universe—including the elements in us, and in Earth’s...
A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters—old, dense...
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day has a deformed shape...
Hurtling around Jupiter and its 79 moons is the Juno spacecraft, a NASA-funded satellite that sends images from the largest...
