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,…
Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but conventional…
This busy image is a treasure trove of wonders. Bright stars from the Milky Way…
In 2015, around 4.5 million people died prematurely from diseases attributed to ambient air pollution,…
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…
A binary star system is one that contains a pair of stars orbiting each other.…
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils…
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of astronomy’s most…
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus,…
Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists…
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck are on the hunt for nitrogen-containing molecules in space.…
With the combined efforts of three Yale laboratories, researchers conducted the first demonstration of site-specific…