Are there oceans on other worlds? We asked a NASA expert.
The story of oceans is the story of life.
Oceans define our home planet, covering the majority of Earth’s surface and driving the water...
Liquid water on Mars may be only a dusty mirage
Liquid water previously detected under Mars’ ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet...
Scientists find a black hole unlike any other
Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other.
At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at...
Scientists explore the real impact of Starlink Satellites
Since 2019, SpaceX has been launching an increasing number of internet satellites into orbit around Earth.
The satellite constellation, called Starlink, now includes nearly 1,800...
How a bubble gives birth to young stars
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form?
In a paper published in...
Scientists detect rare “X” particles in quark-gluon plasma for the first time
In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and gluons — elementary...
This tiny Saturn moon could have an ocean inside
A Southwest Research Institute scientist set out to prove that the tiny, innermost moon of Saturn was a frozen inert satellite and instead discovered...
Scientists find the “heart” of the Milky Way galaxy
New study finds mass at the center of the Milky Way is 99.9% from a supermassive black hole.
At the center of the Milky Way...
Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back...
Organic molecules found in this Martian meteorite are not from the Earth, shows study
Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the...