Research

Search for habitable worlds guided by new tectonic regime; "episodic-squishy lid" explains Earth's active tectonics and Venus's stagnation, reshaping habitability...

Tiny red dot in deep space may be cosmic monster; new "black hole star" model explains James Webb discoveries challenging...

Galaxies struggle to grow in crowded environments; DEVILS survey reveals how dense cosmic neighborhoods slow star formation and alter galactic...

Icy moons in our solar system may harbor boiling oceans beneath ice shells; new research suggests life could survive despite...

Solar flare disruptions in Earth’s ionosphere recently made waves, not just in the sky, but across our critical communications systems...

Liquid water on Mars questioned; new SHARAD radar observations suggest bright reflections beneath south polar ice cap likely result from...

New crater on the moon discovered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter; scientists call 72-foot impact a "freckle" formed between 2009...

JWST may have found the 1st stars in the universe; Population III stars detected in galaxy LAP1-B seen 800 million...

Negative magnitudes of astronomical objects explained; why brighter celestial bodies have negative numbers in magnitude scale from Hipparchus to modern...

Scientists create key to find alien life in clouds—new reflectance spectra of atmospheric microbes enable detection of biosignatures on cloud-covered...