Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the...
Astronomers are buzzing after observing the fastest nova ever recorded. The unusual event drew scientists’ attention to an even more...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at...
Were Earth’s oceans completely covered by ice during the Cryogenian period, about 700 million years ago, or was there an...
The Gaia space probe unveiled its latest discoveries on Monday in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission returned uncontaminated primitive asteroid samples to Earth. A comprehensive analysis of 16...
Since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to figure out how the searing-hot exoplanets...
NASA is officially joining the hunt for UFOs. The space agency on Thursday announced a new study that will recruit...
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy—equivalent to a hundred...
An international team of astronomers, led by Yamila Miguel (SRON/Leiden Observatory), has found that Jupiter’s gaseous envelope doesn’t have a...
A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much...
The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California....
