by Julia Reichelt, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for...
Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming...
Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will...
A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first...
Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form...
Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent’s...
More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter’s outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears...
When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn’s moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as...
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)....
