Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China released LTE440, short for Lunar Time Ephemeris, in a recently ...
In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
When the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 launched in late 2018, it brought high-resolution data to a new ...
Purple Mountain Observatory’s nanosecond-accurate system could underpin future lunar navigation, habitats and GPS-style ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
New calculations reported by Live Science indicate Jupiter was once much larger and is still contracting as it cools, offering constraints on early solar system conditions.
Mars is half the size of Earth and has only a tenth of its mass, but a new study shows that even such a "lightweight" planet ...
Earth’s slow axial wobbles—known as precession cycles—do not just shape long-term climate trends. A new study led by ...
Space HPC opens at ESRIN (Italy) to process large volumes of data and satellite simulations, boosting European space research ...
For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...
The Great Red Spot is a gigantic storm, twice the size of Earth, that has swirled for centuries. It’s just one of many on the ...