Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher has realized that...
Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has provided crucial data to answer the decades-long question of where the energy comes from to...
Just how dark is deep space? Astronomers may have finally answered this long-standing question by tapping into the capabilities and...
Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the solar wind, which envelops our solar...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds—objects with planetlike masses but untethered from any star’s gravity—including...
An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when...
Planets are bodies that orbit a star and have sufficient gravitational mass that they form themselves into roughly spherical shapes...
We know that the Earth has an iron core surrounded by a mantle of silicate bedrock and water (oceans) on...
An intense debate surrounding the cosmic rock that killed the dinosaurs has stirred scientists for decades, but a new study...
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, a first-of-its-kind facility aboard the International Space Station, has taken another step toward revolutionizing how quantum...
Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a Southwest Research Institute-led team has confirmed hydroxyl molecules on the surface...