It is generally accepted that planetary surfaces were covered with molten silicate, a “magma ocean”,…
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There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of…
In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and the Missouri University of…
Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms — the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter…
Quantum mechanics boasts all sorts of strange features, one being quantum superposition – the peculiar…
A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early solar system,…
If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter…
Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe’s mass, is one…
What happens inside a black hole stays inside a black hole, but what happens inside…
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the…