A strange brightening in the Lyra constellation led scientists to an object once mistaken for a planet. It turned out to be ...

This paper describes the eccentricity, amplitude, phase shift, angular momentum, polarization, radial path, and orbital ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of astronomers led by Dimitri Veras at the University of Warwick has observed a white ...

Conspiracy theories have raged about 3I/ATLAS being an unnatural object. But the alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science. New telescope images show that the ...

What did Muslims scientists do to spark the renaissance? How Islam can reclaim its stake in the future of science?

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has detected a massive solar eruption's impact on the Moon's tenuous atmosphere for the first time. The CHACE-2 instrument observed a significant increase in lunar ...

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about some of the factors that are convincing Electrek readers to add home solar power systems to their homes. After receiving over a ...