Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

The farside possesses a thicker crust - the outermost layer of the planet - and is more mountainous and cratered.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

The marimo (Aegagropila brownii), a nationally designated Special Natural Monument of Japan, inhabits Lake Akan in Hokkaido, ...

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...

Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University and an honorary professor at the University ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted early signs of an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light ...

A new British study swirled new evidence on the moon's frigid space temperatures, suggesting its different sides hold vastly ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, making it invisible to telescopes. Israeli scientists have outlined a groundbreaking method to study dark matter, ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

I/ATLAS stands apart from other interstellar objects because of its size as well as pace, and will soon disappear from Earth's view.

A global collaboration led by Sharjah has established the Faya Palaeolandscape as a cornerstone in the study of early human ...