Kepler Data Suggests 17 Billion Earth-Sized Worlds in the Milky Way
According to a new study presented at the American Astronomical Society, one in six stars has an Earth-sized planet in an orbit of 85 days…
According to a new study presented at the American Astronomical Society, one in six stars has an Earth-sized planet in an orbit of 85 days…
A new study examines the probability of life existing on extrasolar moons, identifying tidal heating as a criterion for exomoon habitability and devising a theoretical…
In the last 40,000 years, there have been at least ten gigantic landslides of more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) in the North…
By looking for a dip in the brightness as planets pass in front of their parent stars, volunteers have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting…
Over the holidays, NASA’s Curiosity rover returned new images of “Snake River” and is now in a shallow depression called “Yellowknife Bay.” This is the…
Researchers discovered a new class of Martian meteorite in the Sahara Desert that contains 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites from unknown origins,…
By combining more than six-thousand observations from three different instruments and using new data modeling techniques, an international team of astronomers greatly improved the sensitivity…
In a lab experiment, Yale researchers discovered that molten iron can deeply penetrate single crystals of magnesium iron oxide, resulting in “metal-rich blobs” that penetrate…
Cassini has spotted a river valley, which scientists believe is filled with liquid, on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more than 400 km. The international…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to explore the Martian surface, approaching an area called “Yellowknife Bay,” which is a potential location for selecting the first target…
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still encircling Saturn, and this could apply to many of the…
One of the strangest moons in the Solar System is Saturn’s Iapetus, which features an enormous equatorial mountain ridge and spiky belt that rises 12…
Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a new analysis of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, suggests that it has an icy, rocky core with a…
While the surface of Mercury is hot enough in some places to melt lead, the MESSENGER probe confirmed that there are about a trillion tonnes…
Most orbiting satellites point down towards Earth, but the satellites of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology look sideways. Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) look towards…
A newly published study, which examines how energy is shared between the different species of matter and how it is transferred from strongly heated electrons…
Using the HATNet telescopes, CfA astronomers and colleagues discovered three new hot Jupiters and identified a new subclass of extra-solar planets, dubbed “highly inflated Jupiters.”…
Scientists detail the dwarf planet Makemake in a new study, measuring its density for the first time and finding out that it is not surrounded…