At first, there was nothing dramatic about the galaxy. ESO 130 G012 sits relatively close by cosmic standards, about 55 ...
Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...
Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of any drill, new research suggests that Earth’s center is far more intricate ...
Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, ...
Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...
BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...
Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...
Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core may not be fully solid. A rare “superionic” state of matter could explain ...
By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird ...
Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...