Martian Snowstorms Can Be Forecast...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue jewel compared to the deserts of Mercury, Venus and Mars. But what if our Sun had not one but two ...

New protostars have been found in a survey of the biggest site of star formation near our solar system, situated in the constellation Orion. In Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission had been working on this mission. They've ...

Washington, May 9 (ANI): Researchers say snowstorms lashing down at the northern hemisphere of Mars during the icy cold winters may be predicted several weeks in advance. For missions to the red planet exploring this region with rovers, such weather ...

Researchers unveiled a total of three planets Thursday, including two potentially livable super-Earths. The discoveries bring the Kepler team closer to its goal. Two potentially livable super-Earths and an outsized version of Venus were unveiled ...

PARIS -- A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate. Sure, ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of three planets, in two planetary systems, that are in or on the edge of the so-called habitable zone, the range that is just the right distance from their stars so they wouldn't be too hot or too cold to ...

, Ottawa, Ont Hundreds of scientists and other employees who support research at the federal Agriculture Department have been told that their jobs are being eliminated or could be cut as part of a transformation process mandated by the federal ...

LETHBRIDGE, Canada, April 29 -- The University of Lethbridge issued the following news release: - U of L researcher Dr David Naylor Canadian lead for SPIRE device: Herschel Mission Operating Phase Wrapping Up ...

I was observing the system with ESOs Very Large Telescope, looking for changes in the light emitted from the white dwarf caused by its motion around the pulsar, says John Antoniadis, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy ...