Lunar swirls are light-colored, sinuous features on the moon’s surface, bright enough to be visible from a backyard telescope. Some...
Stars blinking code in Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” might be science fiction, but by deciphering neutron stars’ erratic flickers, a...
Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed...
Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx...
An international team led by UNIGE, UNIBE and PlanetS has shown the existence of two distinct populations of sub-Neptunes, resolving...
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, Profs. Shen Laiquan, Bai Haiyang, et al. from Prof. Wang Weihua’s group at...
A recent discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the...
Two NASA astronauts will stay longer at the International Space Station as engineers troubleshoot problems on Boeing’s new space capsule...
An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it....
NASA’s Mars InSight Lander may be resting on the Red Planet in retirement, but data from the robotic explorer is...
For years, astronomers have worried about how to explain why the Milky Way has fewer satellite galaxies than the standard...
An international team of researchers, co-led by ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, has derived the first estimate of global...
