Meteorites reveal the origin of heaviest elements in our solar system
Scientists went back to the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago to gain new insights into the cosmic origin of the...
Comet stops for a rest near Jupiter’s asteroids
After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place...
Scientists reveal origins of the highest energy particles in the Universe
A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino--a particularly elusive particle--in the wake of a star's destruction as it is...
Life from Earth could temporarily survive on Mars, shows study
Some microbes on Earth could temporarily survive on the surface of Mars, finds a new study by NASA and German Aerospace Center scientists.
The researchers...
Our Milky Way galaxy may be swarming with planets with oceans and continents like...
Astronomers have long been looking into the vast universe in hopes of discovering alien civilizations.
But for a planet to have life, liquid water must...
Newly arrived Mars rovers are safe from lightning strikes, shows study
If experiments done in small bottles in a University of Oregon lab are accurate, the friction of colliding Martian dust particles are unlikely to...
Moonlight does affect human sleep patterns, shows study
Stayed up past your bedtime? Check the lunar cycle.
Moonlight might be to blame.
A new study co-authored by Yale anthropologists Claudia Valeggia and Eduardo Fernández-Duque...
Did a comet wipe out the dinosaurs?
About 66 million years ago a massive chunk of rock slammed into Earth in what is the modern-day Yucatan Peninsula.
The impact extinguished about 75%...
First detected black hole is more massive than we thought
Cygnus X-1, a binary star system first discovered in 1964, comprises one of the closest black holes to Earth.
New observations of this black hole,...
Ceramic in meteorites upends theory of early solar system
A new analysis of ceramic chips embedded in meteorites suggests the formation of our solar system was not as quiet and orderly as we...