Secondary gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere created when primary gravity waves, like those triggered by a volcanic ...

Volatiles are crucial for sustaining life and Earth's habitability, with subduction zones being the main pathways for these ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling ...

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

When the solar wind reaches Earth, it slams into the planet’s magnetic field, producing currents of charged particles that flow toward the poles. Some of the ions become trapped in a layer of ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

A sudden flash of light in 2020 caught the attention of astronomers scanning the sky. That brief signal, spotted by Caltech’s ...