The model will make life much easier for lunar scientists, helping them quickly analyze vast quantities of data.

For 50 years, models of the Moon's origin assumed it assembled slowly from a debris disk. Simulations that correct a key ...

Astronomers already have evidence that stars can eat their planets. Some stars briefly brighten and swell after swallowing ...

Powerful collisions in the outer Solar System may have changed the fate of icy moons in a surprising way. New simulations ...

His remarkable work on sandpile models helps us account for things like avalanches, solar flares, traffic. I like problems of ...

E arly in the history of the Solar System, the Sun might have engulfed a sizable rocky planet, several times the mass of the ...

The tiny swirls and vortices are called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, and this is the first observational confirmation that ...

Scientists have discovered that the Moon-forming collision may have depended heavily on how hot and physically strong early ...

Artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, the climate crisis, the future of work and global governance. This science ...

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that intense radiation should strip away their atmospheres. Yet several of these scorching, lava-covered worlds still retain thick gaseous envelopes, ...

Waves too quick for older telescopes to see ripple through the Sun's polar corona, and they carry a big share of the fast ...

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...