Why is the sun’s atmosphere hotter than its surface?
A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about the sun: why the solar atmosphere is millions of...
Water on Mars not as widespread as previously thought, shows study
Water on Mars, in the form of brines, may not be as widespread as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at...
Scientists may find the best place for life on Mars
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of...
Scientists find new superhighway system in the Solar System
Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible.
Such routes can drive comets and...
New technique could sift out the universe’s first gravitational waves
In the moments immediately following the Big Bang, the very first gravitational waves rang out.
The product of quantum fluctuations in the new soup of...
Scientists find newborn jets in distant galaxies
Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey have found distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores that have launched powerful,...
Scientists get the lowdown on sun’s super-hot atmosphere
A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about the sun: why the solar atmosphere is millions of...
Australia-bound asteroid sample may reveal life’s origins
A Japanese space mission will deliver samples collected from asteroid Ryugu in a capsule to the outback desert of Woomera in South Australia this...
Supernova finding blows up an elemental origin theory
One of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae, according to...
How meteorite strikes may change quartz on the Earth’s surface
Our Earth is constantly battered by tiny pieces of space rock.
Most of them burn up in the atmosphere, and these are called meteors.
But when...