Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...
From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...
Onboard Juno is its famed camera, dubbed "JunoCam." A two megapixel visible light camera, JunoCam is designed "to study the ...
A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the future might look like.
The new Atlas of the Human Planet reveals 50 years of global population growth and urbanization trends, providing insights ...
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...
NASA has shared a fascinating animation featuring the journey taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars since its arrival there ...
Marcos Terán has worked in and around the Matos River in Bolivia for years, collecting data and collaborating with local ...