An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

For many years, the North Atlantic Ocean warmed more slowly than other parts of the world. In 2023, that changed — ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...