“We aren’t quite sure what the strange cloud is, but one possibility is that it could be a hydrogen ‘snow cloud’ disrupted by a nearby star...
A new finding about Venus highlights the unique place that Earth, and its system of global plate tectonics, has among its planetary neighbors. Research by Yale...
Recent research has revealed that Venus might have looked like Earth for three billion years, with vast oceans that could have been friendly to life. “That’s...
“The system exists against the odds,” said Brian Powell, a data scientist at NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center about the source of...
Cosmic sleuths are attempting to locate one of the estimated one billion neutron stars in the Milky Way–the collapsed core of a doomed supergiant star with...
“These days, I’m mostly wandering into galaxies and looking for the light switch,” says Harvard astrophysicist Peter Maksym, who appears to have found the switch...
“The nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science and we need to use any related new data to tackle it,” says...
Cosmologists speculate based on hints of twisted light that offer clues to an exotic substance called “quintessence” could be the unknown force accelerating the...
The now iconic image of M87’s monster black hole–an object described as “the most perfect macroscopic objects in the universe, the only elements in their construction...
One new theory, says physicist Michio Kaku, is that the as yet undetected dark matter of the universe may be ordinary matter that makes up stars,...