Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1...
A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought,...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered “middle-aged,” and the pictures of what...
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most...
If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks...
Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies—and even before the violent explosion...
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as...
The seven other planets in our solar system will line up in the night sky on Friday evening for a...
When the sun hurled enormous amounts of radiation into space in an explosive eruption on February 22, 2024, the Indian...
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...
