However, some of the lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts, as well as those observed by orbiting spacecraft on the ...

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium-3 is ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

Unpredictable? Yes. Unstoppable? Absolutely.Aquarius, May 24 is dialed into your favorite frequency: future mode. With your ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

If you were to ask scientists where life exists beyond Earth, they would correctly tell you that we do not know. There is so much that we do not understand about life on Earth, let alone about where ...

According to NASA, the aurora on Earth may last only a few minutes, but on Saturn, it can last for days. In the 2010s, aurora ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Webb and Hubble telescopes, released a video of ...

This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its ...

Refined knowledge about Uranus’s rotation period introduces new research prospects to scientists. Utilizing precise rotation period data will improve research on the planetary magnetic field ...

Some NASA scientists and engineers are already discussing sending a dedicated orbiter to Uranus in the coming decades. If built, that spacecraft could peel back even more layers of mystery: sampling ...

However, unlike these other planets, the glowing lights on Uranus are unique because of their unpredictable manner, which is due to the planet's tilted magnetic field. Thankfully, Hubble has observed ...