The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place ...

Between sightings of the aurora borealis, the solar eclipse, supermoons and plenty of other cool phenomena, there's been something in the sky to look at throughout 2024. It seems 2025 will have ...

“The average exoplanet person doesn’t care about asteroids,” says study coauthor Artem Burdanov, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To those studying far ...

Not only will the nights remain long and dark after the winter solstice, but January offers some of the best planetary views all year. On January 9-10, Venus reaches its greatest eastern ...

Planetary science is the study of the celestial bodies that orbit stars, with a particular focus on our own solar system. This includes studying the formation and evolution of planets, the moons ...

Traditional chemistry is so last year. Welcome to the world of mechanochemistry, where reactions that were thought impossible – indeed, that are impossible when attempted in more conventional ...

The Wisconsin Rapids Paper Mill is finally being torn down after months of planning and preparing. Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Matt Zacher says it may take some time before the stacks can come down ...

"What caught our eye was that, in both the NASA and ECMWF datasets, 2023 stood out as the year with the lowest planetary albedo," says co-author Dr. Thomas Rackow from the ECMWF. Planetary albedo ...

Eighty years ago, in 1944, Dr. Hans Müller from Winterthur, Switzerland filed a patent application for a device designed to process liquid substances at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual ...