It turns out that planets can live a very long time indeed. Around one of the galaxy’s oldest stars, an...
Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest...
We are, by now, pretty familiar with the concept of the Goldilocks zone. Also known as the habitable zone, it’s...
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a...
Tithonium Chasma is one big canyon. At a staggering 810 kilometres (503 miles) long, it’s a large part of Valles...
Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the...
About 87 million miles (140 million kilometers) above the Grand Canyon, an even larger, grander abyss cuts through the gut...
The planets of the Solar System look a lot like a family. Jupiter’s the bossy dad, keeping everyone in line....
By now, we have discovered hundreds of stars with multiple planets orbiting them scattered throughout the galaxy. Each one is...
NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated...
The smallest known main-sequence star in the Milky Way galaxy is a real pixie of a thing. It’s called EBLM...
Let’s admit it: It’s been a pretty rough year for our neck of the Solar System. But it’s been a...
