Chromium hydride (CrH), a molecule that’s relatively rare and particularly sensitive to temperature, is useful as a “thermometer for stars,”...
Researchers from Western have shown that a fireball that originated at the edge of the solar system was likely made...
Titan, the already pretty weird moon of Saturn, just got a little bit weirder. Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in...
With multiple rovers landed and a mission set to return samples to Earth, Mars has dominated the search for life...
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain...
Based partly on data from generations of NASA missions, including NASA’s Voyager and Cassini, the work could help scientists determine...
A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and...
A California startup is joining much bigger players in the drive to explore settlement on the moon, as plans by...
When it was first discovered in 2004, Apophis was identified as one of the most dangerous asteroids in that there...
Two spacecraft are set to swoop past Venus within hours of each other this week, using the maneuver to do...
An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles...
If there’s one thing our Solar System doesn’t have in short supply, it’s rocks. Small rocks, chunky rocks, dry rocks,...