Where did Earth's water come from? Comets may have brought some of it. Asteroids may have brought some. Icy planetesimals…
Scientists have found the unmistakable presence of certain isotopes in an iron meteorite. Since these meteorites are thought to leftover…
Sometimes the sun spits out high-energy particles which slam into the Earth, potentially disrupting our sensitive electronics. New research has…
A deep-space mission is about to pull a ‘vanishing act,’ through mid-February, as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (affectionately…
There's no doubt that the Moon has water on its surface. Orbiters have spotted deposits of ice persisting in the…
A new study by a Swedish astrophysicist shows that Venus is not likely to have lost its water to space,…
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph's thorax, under…
I forget the Sun is a star. I think we all do sometimes. It’s easy to take for granted. The…
Even though Earthling scientists are studying Mars intently, it's still a mysterious place. One of the striking things about Mars…
Every second of every day, our sun spits out a stream of tiny high-energy particles, known as the solar wind.…