ASTRONOMY

An international team of researchers, including a glaciologist at Newcastle University, UK, has discovered remarkably well-preserved glacial landforms buried almost 1 km beneath the North Sea. The team used sound wave, known as seismic, data to reveal...
NASA's mapping of Mars now bears the names of three iconic Algerian national parks, Algerian physicist Noureddine Melikechi, a member of the US space agency's largest Mars probe mission, has told AFP. The Tassili n'Ajjer, Ghoufi and...

Does life really need planets? Maybe not

Do we have a planetary bias when it comes to understanding where life can perpetuate? It's only natural that we do. After all, we're...

How to catch the Geminids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year

The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last chances...

The moon’s biggest and most ancient crater is more circular than previously thought

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the...

New evidence of organic material identified on Ceres, the inner solar system’s most water-rich object after Earth

Six years ago, NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest bodies...

Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term, research finds

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to...

Astronomers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much...

How much are asteroids really worth?

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in the...

Astronomers discover a rare group of dwarf galaxies

Astronomers from the Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea and elsewhere have discovered a rare isolated group of five star-forming dwarf galaxies in the...

Uranus’s swaying moons could help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans...

The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the...

Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal 2.83-billion-year-old basalt with depleted mantle source

The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition, crustal thickness, and evidence of volcanism....

Chinese rover finds evidence of ancient Martian ocean

A Chinese rover has found new evidence to support the theory that Mars was once home to a vast ocean, including tracing some ancient...

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