Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic evolution of the ancient solar nebula materials. These materials interacted and coevolved with the weak but widespread ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how Red Texas is turning green when it comes to energy and building up U ...

Google is building a wind and solar-powered data centre near Minneapolis, featuring the world's largest battery storage system. This innovative system uses Form Energy's iron-air technology to provide ...

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

Google announced this week it’s developing a new data center complex south of Minneapolis to be powered by a practical utopia ...

Despite the dramatic name, these alignments aren’t exceptionally rare. The last six-planet parade occurred in January 2025, ...

Astronomers already know how planetary systems are born and how they look once they ...