Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms June 13, 2024 — The new study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010 ...

IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar objects are the most puzzling feature of ...

Space has long fascinated astronomers, not just for its vastness but for its eerie, almost profound darkness. Now, thanks to ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, has offered the best-yet estimates of how dark deep space truly ...

Researchers have developed a model for revealing what the color of a galaxy tells about its distance, to be used for measuring cosmic structures. Using telescopic observations and spectroscopy, ...

27, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth ... study suggests. If they didn't, the ... July 11, 2024 — The qualities and behavior of ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission aims to study Europa's shell thickness, composition, and geology to determine potential habitability. Tidal heating on Europa generates internal frictional heat, ...

The object is thought to be a bolide, also known as a fireball, a type of extremely bright meteor that occurs when a piece of rocky asteroid or icy comet enters the Earth’s atmosphere and glows ...

The new images show the Horsehead Nebula as turbulent waves of gas rising from the western side of Orion B, a star-forming molecular cloud located 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

One significant piece of this puzzle that continues to stump scientists, and now AI algorithms, is dark matter. In fact, 85% of all matter and around 27% of the universe ... introduces a whole new ...

A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an observational study in support of a century-old theory ...