A new analysis suggests the Sun holds far more silver than earlier estimates indicated. More advanced models of the solar atmosphere raised the calculated amount by 55 percent, bringing it into much closer agreement with ancient meteorites
Anew study suggest that famous Tabby's star is orbited by an object on the planet/brown dwarf boundary.
SETI astronomers search for radio signals, mostly from a specific band of the radio spectrum: the frequencies between 1.42 and 1.66 GHz. The millimeter and submillimeter radio bands remain almost completely unexplored for SETI.
A new research suggests reaching Europa's subsurface ocean — or even glimpsing evidence of it near the icy surface — may be far harder than expected.
Theoretical physicists argue that the singularity is better understood as a flat, three-dimensional surface.
In 2010, scientists waiting to use the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands captured a brief 36 minutes of images of Venus. What they discovered, hidden in the data, was a series of planetwide concentric rings in the upper atmosphere.
A new study indicates that the formation of Earth’s crust goes through cycles, with periods of increased crust production roughly every 200 million years, corresponding to the solar system’s transit through the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground.
European Southern Observatory said astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile believe they have detected an exomoon. Only, there’s one problem: it doesn’t orbit a planet. Instead, it orbits a brown dwarf.
The Hillsborough meteorite is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemical evolution of primitive asteroids, and the ingredients that may have helped make life possible.
The planet, LHS 1140 b, is a super-Earth planet about 48 light-years from us. LHS 1140 b orbits a red dwarf star within the so-called habitable zone.
Using the Yebes 40-m and IRAM 30-m radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar commonly found in raspberries, in the molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027.
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 42.195 kilometers across the Red Planet.
Astronomers using ESA’s Euclid space telescope have discovered 31 ancient quasars from a time when the Universe was just 670 to 800 million years old.
Four nearby white dwarf stars have been discovered hiding in plain sight beside brighter red dwarf companions. Hubble's observations finally revealed the long-hidden stellar remnants, including one just 25 light-years away.
