For centuries, the true nature of the Moon’s core remained an open question. Was it entirely molten, like the early Earth, or ...

Diminutive Barnards Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun. Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Two massive structures are located inside Earth - under the Pacific Ocean and beneath Africa and parts of the Atlantic. No ...

Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute ...

The reactor would be located on the university's Urbana campus and would have a molten salt secondary loop providing thermal ...

Iron can form compounds with helium at pressures as low as 5GPa – about 50,000 atmospheres – researchers in Japan report.

Scientists confirm the Moon has a solid iron core, like Earth’s, with a molten outer layer. This discovery reshapes our ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Moon has a solid inner core with a density comparable to iron, reshaping our ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...