The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its...
Brown dwarfs are strange celestial bodies, occupying a kind of intermediate position between stars and planets. Astrophysicists sometimes call them...
The collective activity of life—all of the microbes, plants, and animals—have changed planet Earth. Take, for example, plants: Plants “invented”...
One longstanding enigma in geology is how one tectonic plate can break Earth’s rock-hard shell and begin diving under another...
Earth’s supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from?...
The asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA intends to visit with a spacecraft in 2026, may be less heavy metal and...
Researchers led by professor Yue Zongyu and professor Di Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese...
The moment that debris from destroyed planets impacts the surface of a white dwarf star has been observed for the...
A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of...
A ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures has been observed orbiting close to a white dwarf star, hinting...
The planet’s auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why...
Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the center, with...
