Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...
The best time to witness the celestial event will be just after sunset starting Jan. 10. A meteor shower will also be visible through Jan. 3.
In 2025, the sky will be illuminated by 12 full Moons, plenty of meteor showers, four eclipses and three Supermoons. Here's a ...
• Saturn, of magnitude +1.1, 16° to the upper left of Venus. The brighter planet will pass 2.2° north of Saturn on Jan. 18; Saturn will be nearly 11° below Venus on Jan. 31. A telescope reveals Saturn ...
NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the IMAP spacecraft to September 2025 to allow more time for preparing its ...
NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on ...
A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...
This is the ground-breaking discovery that will bring a new perspective in the ring formation of Saturn and to the early solar system because it will reshape our view of planetary evolution.
Scientists hope that this upcoming approach will reveal even more about the star at the center of our solar system. Ira Flatow talks with Dr. Nour Rawafi, project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar ...
To summarize, this would mean that small community-sized resources can and should be built along our world’s small bodies of water. When we start using solar power consistently, then we are ...
The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...