Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters...
Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has revealed how it was affected by water and repeatedly smashed apart and...
Although their primary purpose is to look for exoplanets, observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter’s icy moons as...
An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has for the first time directly detected...
Our solar system and everything within it—including the Earth—will look very different when the sun dies. But whether the planet...
If you’ve ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the sun, you might well think our planet travels along...
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for...
Potential signs of the rainbow-like “glory effect” have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colorful...
A research group coordinated by the University of Helsinki was able to measure a spike in radiocarbon concentration of trees...
After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators...
A study from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which combines laboratory chemistry with astrophysics, has shown for the...