One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

New discoveries suggest that Earth's crust contains vast reserves of natural hydrogen, potentially offering a sustainable and ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

In a desolate laboratory on the outskirts of modern-day Kazakhstan, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov risked everything, refusing to even wear the required protective dark goggles, determined to ...

Nearly 70 years ago, a team of scientists and military officers from the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of ...

New high-precision mass measurements of phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27 have clarified how nuclear reactions unfold during explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars (Artist’s concept). Credit: ...

Fiberscope is introducing the SOLO PRO+ ExZ1 explosion-proof pipe inspection camera, a cutting-edge addition to its range of ...

Berkeley and elsewhere have performed spectroscopic and photometric study of a peculiar supernova designated SN 2021ukt, ...

For years, scientists thought they understand what happens when stars explode. New earliest-ever mages of supernova events ...