Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Kim Stanley Robinsons seventeen novels and six story collections have been translated into 24 languages. Collectively, his Mars trilogy has won all the major science fiction and fantasy awards.

Keep your eyes on the sky this upcoming year for a chance to spot breathtaking meteor showers, a special view of Saturn and a blood-red moon Carlyn Kranking From a total solar eclipse that ...

3D Systems (DDD) is zooming 24% higher after the company announced a new alliance with German giant Daimler Buses. Also in on the deal is Wibu-Systems, a Germany-based software licensing firm.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Dec. 6, 2024 — A new study shows the benefits of coordinating the siting of solar farms, wind farms, and storage systems, taking into account local and temporal variations in wind, sunlight ...

By Zachary Small Reporting on the art world The Smithsonian Institution informed employees on Tuesday that it would close its diversity office, freeze hiring for all federal positions and require ...

An international research team led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has developed a 3D/2D perovskite solar cell based on a meta-amidinopyridine ...

The Smithsonian Institution will close its Office of Diversity, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday, only a week after President Donald Trump directed all federal diversity, equity and inclusion ...

The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system. None of the terrestrial planets have rings, although Earth does have belts of trapped radiation, as discussed below. Among ...