NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds changes in Jupiter’s magnetic field
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an internal magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon...
Scientists decode mystery of Egyptian desert glass
A recent study has solved a nearly 100-year-old riddle by discovering that glass found in the Egyptian desert was created by a meteorite impact,...
China’s Chang’E 4 mission discovers new ‘secrets’ from far side of the moon
A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon.
The fourth...
A ‘survival guide’ for exoplanets: Be tough and rocky
Small, hardy planets most likely to survive death of their host stars.
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding...
Our moon is actively shrinking and quaking
A new analysis suggests that the moon is actively shrinking and producing moonquakes along thousands of cliffs called thrust faults spread over the moon's...
Scientists reveal how super-Earth planets formed
The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours.
In the solar system, the planet closest to the Sun-Mercury, with an orbit of...
The universe is expanding about 10 percent faster than we thought
This is a ground-based telescope’s view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
The inset image, which the Hubble...
Scientists find rare-Earth metals in the atmosphere of the hottest exoplanet
KELT-9 b is the hottest exoplanet known to date.
In the summer of 2018, a joint team of astronomers from the universities of Bern and...
Scientists find new water cycle on Mars
Billions of years ago, Mars could have looked like this with an ocean covering part of its surface.
Approximately every two Earth years, when it...
Scientists find new ways to detect the passage of gravitational waves
Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark after they have passed.
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the...