In 2005, researchers at the University of Tokyo proposed that some elements from Earth's upper atmosphere might have escaped ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

Scientists have discovered trace gases from Earth reaching the Moon, revealing unexpected interplanetary connections and ...

The Moon's surface is made up of long-dead volcanoes and impact craters from asteroids. But have you ever wondered what might ...

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...

The latest images from December 14 and 15, 2025 show a prominent anti-tail that extends out to half a million kilometers away ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

A large mass of granite, located beneath the Compton and Belkovich craters on the Moon, has been slowly emitting heat for ...

Visitors to the Sunwheel can see the sun rising and setting over the winter solstice stones from approximately Dec. 16 ...

The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The Moon’s proximity to Earth and the presence of ...

As interest in everything from the zodiac to tarot cards soars, one science writer (and former sceptic) reads into her own ...