Earth’s mantle is the thick layer of silicate rock between Earth’s crust and its molten core, making up about 84%...
Around 4.4 billion years ago, the early solar system resembled a game of space rock dodgeball, as massive asteroids and...
NASA has a provided a tantalizing teaser photo ahead of the highly-anticipated release next week of the first deep-space images...
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them...
Brown dwarfs are known as “failed stars,” owing to the lack of central hydrogen burning. They bridge the gap between...
We can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately using Newton’s laws of physics. But in...
Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group—that is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond...
Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top...
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around...
Communications across the vastness of interstellar space could be enhanced by taking advantage of a star’s ability to focus and...
NASA has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming...
An international team of researchers has discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South...
