Scientists at the University of Manchester and The Australian National University have created a new molecule that may soon ...

We’ve known for some time now our universe is expanding, and in recent years discovered this was happening considerably faster than we’d expected. Yet despite momentous innovations in telescope and ...

MOXIE’s purpose is to demonstrate that oxygen can be made from the carbon dioxide in Mars’s atmosphere by using electricity to split it into a mixture of oxygen and carbon monoxide, via a process ...

What Created the Moon's Atmosphere? For their study, the MIT and University of Chicago-based research team looked at soil samples from the Moon collected by astronauts during NASA's Apollo missions..

IO is also home to some of the most extreme mountains in the solar system, the highest of which is called 'Boösaule Montes'. With a height of 17.5 kilometers (or 10.8 miles), it dwarfs the tallest ...

As technology becomes more advanced, astronomers will be able to detect more and more rogue planets. As a matter of fact, astronomers have recently been able to detect an earth-sized rogue planet for ...

It is generally believed that people become gradually less sociable as they grow older. Is this actually the case, and if so, what causes this change? A new study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Suppose we ask: where did spacetime itself arise from? Then we can go on turning the clock yet further back, into the truly ancient “ Planck epoch ” – a period so early in the universe’s history that ...

Search for extraterrestrial life. Romanovskaya also proposes potential 'technosignatures' (measurable characteristics or effects that offer scientific evidence of past or present technology) that may ...

Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our planet is in fact a bit like a bar magnet. It has a north and south magnetic ...

This is what is known as an “oblate spheroid”, which is a sphere that is wider at its horizontal axis than it is at its vertical axis. According to the 2004 Working Group of the International Earth ...

A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less ...