An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the…
Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface,…
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June…
A new study using data from NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the…
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over…
To fully understand biodiversity and how it is changing, you need to look near, far,…
New research shows that Uranus was hit by a massive object roughly twice the size…
This image of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound…
SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image…
The evolution of Earth’s first animals more than 500 million years ago caused global warming,…
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Like our oceans, today’s continents are brimming with life. Yet billions of years ago, before…
Why do individuals respond differently to the same environment? Researchers from North Carolina State University…
The interstellar object ‘Oumuamua perplexed scientists in October 2017 as it whipped past Earth at…
A new study provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet – that is, a planet…