The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar ... expanded their search compared with ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better understanding of the past.

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

Solar energy will power most of the growth in US power generation over the next two years, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The solar sector is expected to add 26 gigawatts ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite ...