For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at…
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze.…
With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program’s first landing of…
It is generally accepted that planetary surfaces were covered with molten silicate, a “magma ocean”,…
In January, China’s Chang’E-4 – the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the…
There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of…
Astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological…
This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping…
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting…
A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive…
