2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (363+ words) A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (625+ words) The discovery might pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe Scientists may have found the most significant indication of dark matter ever. An intriguing particle interaction – found during a search for dark matter,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (392+ words) Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mother ship behind on Thursday and headed down the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage to the solar system's smallest and closest-to-the-sun planet. The linked European and Japanese spacecraft separated as planned from their…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (882+ words) It’s not easy to pick out the patterns that the ancient Greeks drew in this maze of obscure stars, Nigel Henbest writes, but there’s one shape you can’t miss With the equinox coming up on 23 September, this month we change…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (400+ words) Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn’s south pole. The spinning, meandering decagon appears to be even bigger and more unstable than the hexagon of clouds around Saturn’s north pole that was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (348+ words) New research suggests that we might have missed something very important in our understanding of how the Moon formed. Despite its importance and relative proximity, scientists are still not sure how the Moon actually formed in the first place. But…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (626+ words) The discovery might pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe Scientists may have found the most significant indication of dark matter ever. An intriguing particle interaction – found during a search for dark matter,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (662+ words) NASA’s newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before. SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-fire-power Falcon Heavy…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (924+ words) Nasa has named its latest flagship space telescope after the American scientist Nancy Grace Roman. Roman’s contributions to astrophysics should have made her famous, yet many people will never have heard of her. For decades, astronomers have been spoiled with…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (532+ words) Mysterious material makes up most of the universe – but we don’t know where or what it is New computers simulations might let scientist find where dark matter is hiding. Astronomers have long known that much our universe is made up…...