University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These...
New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here on Earth. Researchers investigated whether...
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously...
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these...
Scientists have long thought that our solar system’s ocean worlds, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, may...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles...
Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals...
Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration...
The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected by scientists from the CNRS, together with...
An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than...
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago...
