Measurements over the years show that the planet's upper atmosphere is cooling and that the temperature has halved. None of the other planets experienced the same changes.
For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way. The star WOH G64 is located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us.
According to a new analysis of the Lafayette Meteorite, minerals within it formed in the presence of water 742 million years ago. It's a real breakthrough in the dating of aqueous minerals on Mars.
In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques to measure the metal content of stars with extreme accuracy.
Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), astronomers have completed the most precise gravity test ever taken.
Have you heard of the 3+30+300 rule for urban forestry? See how Melbourne and Sydney compare to New York, Denver, Seattle, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam and Singapore on trees, canopy and park proximity.
Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.
Brain imaging of fetuses and infants reveals a rapid increase in functional brain connectivity at birth, aiding adaptation to the external world.
Emerging research suggests that we may absorb essential nutrients from the air we breathe, a concept now being explored under the term “aeronutrients.”
Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings.
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in the Tongan archipelago, erupted violently on January 15, 2022. According to a new study though, two faraway monitoring stations recorded a seismic wave some 15 minutes earlier.
New findings using data from NASA's IXPE mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona.
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.
Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.
Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals.
