A team of researchers led by the University of Bern has for the first time identified an unexpected richness of...
Someday, a swarm of cellphone-size robots could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa...
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on...
The violent event that likely preceded our solar system’s formation holds the solution to a longstanding meteorite mystery, says new...
NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday the agency will reveal the “deepest image of our universe that has ever been...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists recently obtained high-precision thermodynamic data on warm dense nitrogen at extreme conditions that could...
An international group of researchers led by Arnaud Belloche (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany) reports the first identification of iso-propanol in interstellar...
When asteroid 2019 OK suddenly appeared barreling toward Earth on July 25, 2019, Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin and the team at...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe Jupiter’s moon, Europa, at ultraviolet wavelengths, filling in...
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind—known...
A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire...
Later this year, NASA is set to launch a probe the size of a tennis court to the asteroid belt,...
