Life thrives at stable temperatures. On Earth, this is facilitated by the carbon cycle. Scientists at SRON, VU and RUG...
Once, this thriving orb that is our home was an inhospitable ball of molten lava. A catastrophic collision around 4.5...
NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program’s TESS mission is no different. SMU astrophysicist and...
In a map of the gamma-ray sky – the highest energy electromagnetic radiation streaming through our Universe – 14 objects...
When the four-decades-old Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively, scientists celebrated. These...
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40...
As NASA’s Perseverance rover begins its search for ancient life on the surface of Mars, a new study suggests that...
The ocean floor is famously unexplored and is imaged in much less detail than the surfaces of Mars, the Moon...
Radioactive dust deep beneath the ocean waves suggests that Earth is moving through a massive cloud left behind by an...
A wispy ring of dust that circles the Sun along the orbital path of Venus has just been revealed in...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has given scientists the first complete look at Venus’ orbital dust ring, a collection of...
A NASA spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return...
