And two upcoming NASA missions will put a spotlight on Venus, investigating how it formed and why it turned out so different from Earth. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives ...

After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally arrived back on Earth. Their SpaceX capsule made a fast and fiery re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere ...

the breakthrough marks the first-ever measurement of a weak r-process reaction cross-section using a radioactive ion beam, in this case studying the 94Sr(α,n)97Zr reaction. This is where a ...

They then cross-checked these numbers against five major ... Stuart Gietel-Basten at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology points out that the majority of the team’s data comes ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade ... meaning its orbit regularly intersects that of Earth, thus creating the potential for an impact.

In January, about 120 SpaceX Starlink satellites burnt up in Earth’s atmosphere. Reports say there were three to four re-entries each day which led to the creation of artificial meteor showers, and ...

The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe. Just a little joke for you to start this article, because that's what this somehow popular theory is: a joke. Despite nearly everyone over ...

Even when Copernicus showed we live in a ‘Heliocentric’ system — where Earth orbits the sun — such information was rejected as it would destabilise an elaborate structure of profiteering. Yet, the ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

There are at least 53 minerals named after Carnegie scientists—some found deep inside the Earth's interior, others exist only at a single location on the whole planet, others hail from elsewhere in ...