We’ve all seen the surreal footage in nature documentaries showing hydrothermal vents on the frigid ocean floor—bellowing black plumes of...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Two large asteroids will safely pass Earth this week, a rare occurrence perfectly timed to commemorate this year’s Asteroid Day....
Research staff at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC) and the Barcelona Supercomputing...
Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was a cloud of gas and dust swirling around the...
Earth’s protective atmosphere has sheltered life for billions of years, creating a haven where evolution produced complex lifeforms like us....
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only other planetary body in the solar system that currently hosts active rivers, lakes,...
A discovery by researchers at the University of Houston has revealed a massive energy imbalance on Saturn, shedding new light...
Scientists around the world are constantly on the hunt for planets outside our solar system that could potentially provide a...
For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains...
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters,...
Astronomers have captured what appears to be a snapshot of a massive collision of giant asteroids in Beta Pictoris, a...
