Tutankhamun iron dagger: A mysterious iron dagger discovered in the tomb of King Tutankhamun has finally had its origin explained. Scientis...

On this planet, clouds emerge every morning and disappear by night as astronomers study the giant exoplanet WASP-94A b using the James Webb...

During a summer internship at NASA, high school junior Wolf Cukier discovered a planet orbiting two stars. While analyzing data from the TE...

Scientists are discovering strange new planets beyond our solar system. These worlds defy old ideas about how planets form and what they lo...

Once thought dormant, the Moon is actively shrinking due to its cooling interior, a process revealing fresh tectonic features and young fau...

Indian-British Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, a leading exoplanetary scientist at Cambridge, has made groundbreaking discoveries using the Ja...

A study updating the planetary boundary framework shows that human activities are increasing the risk of triggering dramatic changes in Ear...

A detailed study has revealed that human activities are jeopardizing Earth's life-support system. What does it mean? Know in detail how Ear...

Every solid body in the solar system is constantly pummeled by impacts, both large and small. Even on Earth, every single spot has been aff...

New York, Dec 12 (IANS) When a meteor comes hurtling toward Earth, the high-pressure air in front of it seeps into its pores and cracks, pu...

Washington, Oct 27 (IANS) The dwarf planet Ceres may have had a global ocean in the past, and two new studies from NASA's Dawn mission sugg...

Washington, May 3 (IANS) A nearby planetary system star could be a good model of our early solar system as it has an architecture remarkabl...

Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) The moon is at least 4.51 billion years old -- or 40-140 million years older than previously thought, says new re...

In research aiming to understand how life might develop, the scientists realised new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or ...

Meteorite impacts on ancient oceans may have created the building blocks of life on Earth, such as nucleobases and amino acids, a new study...

Although launch and cruise costs remain the same, the big burn to slow down and hit the Martian bull's-eye - as in the Hohmann scenario - i...

This discovery helps resolve the question of where the "missing Martian water" may have gone.