Scientists have discovered that a pair of rings circling an asteroid-like chunk of rock in the cold reaches of space out past Jupiter are likely being shepherded by a tiny, unseen moonlet.
By analyzing the images obtained with Pan-STARRS, astronomers have serendipitously discovered a new protoplanetary disk located some 800 light years away.
An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before.
On new recently released NASA images show the moons of Saturn in all their glory, as if they came straight out of the pages of science fiction.
Scientists have previously established that light can be slowed down in certain scenarios, and a new study demonstrates a method for achieving it that promises to be one of the most useful approaches yet.
NASA scientists are just getting started in their analysis of fragments brought back from the Bennu asteroid, and the early indications are that the material it contains originated from an ancient ocean world.
Early analysis of the fragments has shown something equally rare. The meteorite is an aubrite, a class with unknown origins that some scientists argue may be pieces of the planet Mercury.
A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move across the Earth.
The JET tokamak set a new world record for generating energy from nuclear fusion during its final experiment.
The moon has shrunk by more than 45 metres in circumference over the last few hundred million years because of its core gradually cooling.
Recent study showed that those who made it to their hundredth birthday tended to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards.
Researchers have developed a spiral-shaped lens that maintains clear focus at different distances in varying light conditions. The tech could be applied to a range of miniaturized imaging systems.
The beginning of the Universe has always been something of a chicken-and-egg problem. Did stars and galaxies form first, with black holes slowly coalescing in their midst? Or did black holes appear before the first galaxies?
One in 10 premature births in the U.S. have been linked to pregnant women being exposed to chemicals in extremely common plastic products, a large study said.
Saturn's small, crater-covered moon Mimas may have a vast ocean under its thick icy surface, according to a new paper.
