When NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40...
Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to...
Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two...
A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How...
Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it...
As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like...
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth’s hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta’s...
Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor...
