NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite successfully launched and reached on Thursday, February 10th. The mission took off…
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey detected an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System for…
On December 14th, at 12:02 PM Eastern (09:02 AM Pacific), the Sun unleashed a massive solar flare. According to the…
During the 1960s, the first robotic explorers began making flybys of Venus, including the Soviet Venera 1 and the Mariner…
Chinese and Indian astronomers were the first to measure Earth's axial tilt accurately, and they did it about 3,000 years…
In a recent study, a pair of researchers from the Carl Sagan Institute developed a model for finding exoplanets similar…
Carbon and water are so common on Earth that they're barely worth mentioning. But not if you're a scientist. They…
A new study estimates that there could be 11,000 habitable planets within 100 parsecs of our Sun, the nearest being…
Yesterday, NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) announced that the summer of 2003 was the hottest on record. This…
A recent study published in the journal Geology attempts to interpret the patterns of dunes, which are sand mounds frequently…