NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will deliver 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid samples to a specially designed facility

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is on the verge of returning samples of rock and dust from the…

Geminid Meteor Mystery Solved? It’s a collision!

See Earthsky Community photos. | Josh Ashley Amato, Arizona, created a composite image of the Geminid…

NASA shares the Sagittarius A* sound

Space agency NASA has re-enthralled millions with its mesmerizing data sonification of a supermassive black hole.…

A space elevator is closer to reality

This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to technology that is changing…

Study Finds Secrets to High-Performance Pregnancy

Researchers have discovered genetic underpinnings that allow certain populations of tall mice to preserve embryos that…

A mini-Neptune planet may be surrounded by water

A distant exoplanet may be surrounded by a vaporous atmosphere, according to new measurements from the…

Origin of Celestial Monsters and Globular Clusters

Scientists have found strong evidence that supermassive stars were inside globular clusters when they formed 13…

Inside the vapor atmosphere of exoplanet GJ 1214b

GJ 1214b has about one planetary mass Six times Earth’s and very hot (About 450 degrees…

Universal physics expressed in the dynamics of a quantum system

Physicists at Penn State have discovered a universal reaction in quantum systems that is perturbed by…

Water survives in rare main belt comet 238P/Read

According to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, comet 238P/Reed spends its lifetime much…