Approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, swirling liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core generates our planet’s protective magnetic field....
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission recently learned that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than on Earth. By...
Because it’s bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger, more spectacular rings than Saturn has. But new UC Riverside research shows...
Using data collected over two decades ago, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have...
Pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—occasionally show extreme variations in brightness. Scientists predict that these short bursts...
An international team of astronomers has identified only the second and third examples of a rare type of star system...
New Curtin-led research has pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in...
On the heels of Tuesday’s release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope’s...
The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery...
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with...
Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science recently discovered rare deep-sea brine pools...
