When our planet and the incoming sunlight align just right, stunning phenomena such as rainbows and halos can occur. More ...

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

It will also need a suite of other rare earth elements and minerals that many ... energy on the grid when the weather is unfavorable for wind and solar generation. China refines or mines ...

JWST captures Venn diagram-like gas shells Image shows layers from dying star NGC 3132 Instruments reveal gas expelled over time ...

Unlike Earth, the moon’s cooling crust formed a thick layer of feldspar, giving rise to the bright highlands visible today. Volcanic eruptions on the moon produced vast basaltic plains, known as ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

The snapshot above showcases NGC 1514, a planetary nebula that resides roughly 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation ... is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two ...

But less than 4% of all the meteorites found on Earth are carbonaceous. So why is there such a mismatch? In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy on April 14, 2025, my planetary ...

Their observations challenge earlier theories and offer a clearer picture of what may await planetary systems like our own. The star at the center of this event sits about 12,000 light-years from ...