NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many ...

This discovery offers a unique opportunity to study molecular cloud evolution and star formation conditions. A proposed NASA mission named Eos could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

Water ice shapes the outer regions of our Solar System in profound ways, forming the thick crusts of moons like Europa and ...

A pair of groundbreaking NASA studies, published in Nature, have unveiled new insights into the interiors of the Moon and the ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

The designer and engineer of the solar array should own all of the energy numbers for the lifetime of the system. Why you ask? Because overlooking nuanced degradation ... Engineers have a key role to ...

We know Earth is old. Scientists estimate that our planet formed around 4.5 billion years ago. But how old is it exactly? And ...

Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ...

For the first time, astronomers from Johns Hopkins University and other scientific institutions have confirmed the presence ...