Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
India’s sun-monitoring spacecraft has crossed a landmark point on its journey to escape “the sphere of Earth’s influence”, its space...
A new series of supercomputer simulations has offered an answer to the mystery of the origins of Saturn’s rings—one that...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part...
As hopes dim of further contact with India’s moon rover, the country’s space chief has said he was satisfied with...
Biotechnospheres as part of planetary intelligence and the search for extraterrestrial civilizations
by Irina K. Romanovskaya To safeguard Earth’s biosphere, scientists have turned toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the hope that it...
After a seven-year wait, NASA scientists on Tuesday finally pried open a space probe carrying the largest asteroid samples ever...
Gigatons of greenhouse gas are trapped under the seafloor, and that’s a good thing. Around the coasts of the continents,...
Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets...
Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets—”the holy grail...
In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star....
A new study shows unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs died out,...
