Four-billion-year-old carbonates in a Martian meteorite called Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 contain nitrogen-bearing organic molecules, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
Mars’ ancient magnetic field emerged earlier and persisted for longer than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.
The sun appears to be far less active than similar stars in terms of brightness variations caused by sunspots and other phenomena – a “boring” personality, according to scientists, that may not be a bad thing for us Earthlings.
After NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an intense flare, right on cue in 2019, astronomers can finally claim to have solved this mystery
A piece of the moon that’s bigger than the rocks Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth is up for sale at the famed Christie’s auction house.
At least 17 high-inclination Centaurs and two trans-Neptunian objects were captured by the Solar System from the interstellar medium, according to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
This stuff would have existed for thousands of years before disappearing.
A red giant star strayed too close to a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 250 million light-years away.
Beyond the impenetrable cosmological horizon is the unobservable universe: vast, possibly infinite and maybe the likeliest location for alien life.
