Deep layers of molten rock inside large rocky planets have been shown to generate magnetic fields strong enough to persist for billions of years.
Such long-lived shields can decide whether a planet holds onto its atmosphere or is slowly stripped…

Deep layers of molten rock inside large rocky planets have been shown to generate magnetic fields strong enough to persist for billions of years.
Such long-lived shields can decide whether a planet holds onto its atmosphere or is slowly stripped…

If you ever want to pull out the big guns in a pub quiz, then do I have a fact for you! Contrary to popular belief, the biggest organism in the world is not the blue whale. Nor is it the giant sequoia. Nor is it the extinct and admittedly…

Right after the universe began, nothing looked familiar. Space was packed with heat and motion. Matter had not yet settled into atoms or even protons.
Instead, everything existed in a frantic state made of the smallest building blocks, racing…
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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, so to speak.
Thousands of tonnes of cosmic dust bombard the Earth each year, mostly vaporising in the atmosphere….

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.
A new study from paleontologists at the University of Chicago in the…

A team of astronomers based at the European Space Agency demonstrated how artificial intelligence technology will alter existing methods of locating rare astronomical phenomena within our galaxy, the Milky Way, and beyond. David O’Ryan and Pablo…

In a quiet basement in southern England, a cardboard box containing the skeleton of a young woman remained undisturbed for decades. She lived in Roman times.
There was no name or record of her burial – only a scribbled note saying that she was…

Astronomy produces far more data than scientists can immediately analyze. Much of it is stored, catalogued, and rarely revisited. A new study shows that some of the most valuable discoveries may already be sitting in those archives.
By…