This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets (not shown to scale) are forming.
Credit: Illustration: ESO/L. Calçada
A new model giving rise to young planetary systems offers a fresh solution to...
Taken from the International Space Station in 2016, this picture of the southern tip of Greenland shows the island's vast ice sheet fringed by glaciers that flow into the sea. The glaciers and ice sheet of Greenland cover a...
Titan is Saturn's largest moon. Its cloudy appearance comes from an atmosphere mixed with gaseous nitrogen and hydrocarbons.
Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ Cassini Orbiter
The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for...
Boaty being deployed.
Credit: Povl Abrahamsen, BAS
Researchers at the University of Southampton have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth -- known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) -- during first voyage of the yellow...
Aerial view of Bardarbunga volcano, Iceland.
Credit: © adammajor / Fotolia
A spectacular six-month Icelandic lava field eruption could provide the crucial key for scientists to unlock the role aerosols play in climate change, through their interactions with clouds.
An international...
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that...
This map shows wind resources across the contiguous United States at 80 meters above ground level. The team's research says that this resource is variable, so a broad portfolio of other technologies is needed to move to a zero-emissions...
This is a Louisiana subsidence map.
Credit: GSA Today, Nienhuis et al.
Researchers at Tulane University have developed a subsidence map of coastal Louisiana, putting the rate at which this region is sinking at just over one third of an inch...
Earth.
Credit: NASA
In a landmark study, Chinese scientists report the successful transmission of entangled photons between suborbital space and Earth. Furthermore, whereas the previous record for successful entanglement distribution was about 100 kilometers (km), here, transmission over a distance of...
Lyot Crater, rendered here with elevations exaggerated, is home to relatively recent water-carved valleys (denoted in white). New research suggests that water came from melting snow and ice present at the time of the crater-forming impact.
Credit: David Weiss/Brown/NASA
Present-day Mars...
The Hawaiian-Emperor Chain is an example of a hotspot track - a trail of volcanic islands and seamounts created on a lithospheric plate as the plate slowly shifts over a spot of localized melting sourced by a jet of...
