Space

Jupiter’s irregular moons are considered time capsules from the early Solar System, but most are so small and distant—and appear...

Venus looks like a planet frozen in time—hot, dry, and long assumed to be geologically dormant. Yet new modeling work...

An international team led by Hiroshima University has identified what appears to be the Milky Way’s highest-energy “proton PeVatron,” pinpointing...

Researchers at Uppsala University report that the Sun contains about 55% more silver than earlier estimates suggested. Using updated, more...

Lehigh University has joined a newly formed international research consortium led by The Ohio State University, aiming to broaden microgravity...

Nearly a decade after the discovery of LHS 1140b—a rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby red...

Pasadena, CA—A Harvard-led team has reported the strongest evidence yet that a nearby rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140 b, retains an...

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), in partnership with Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), has announced a Media Press...

Listening to the “ringing” left behind after black holes collide could soon let scientists test Einstein’s General Relativity in some...

PASADENA—NASA’s Perseverance rover has found evidence that a thick, ancient rock sequence at the rim of Jezero Crater was assembled...