Astronomers from China and South Korea report the detection of a contact binary system with an extremely low mass ratio of only 0.0356. The newfound system, which received the designation TYC ...

Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...

"The emerging picture is that early Mars and Earth had something in common – both were wet. It is known from analysis of the ...

Taking into account a phenomenon first identified by Sir Isaac Newton and later confirmed by Albert Einstein, researchers ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

Scientists have long wondered why life exclusively uses left-handed amino acids, and a groundbreaking study has just made ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule ...

The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a NASA-funded discovery that RNA — a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

Door-to-door sales agents targeted the elderly with promises of energy savings, rebates, tax credits that proved illusory, an ...