NASA describes deep hydrogen compression that eventually forms conductive metallic liquid, making Jupiter feel less like Earth and more like a continuous gradient of states. That alone breaks the old ...

This hypothesis has the advantage of explaining why the rings have a lot of ice and little rock, in contrast to models where a moon strayed inside Saturn’s Roche limit and was pulled apart.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

The earth and the heavens are connected to each other. The light and the heat, the blessings and the mercy in form of rain for instance, come down from the skies. According to the consensus of ...

For 15 years, one nearby exoplanet refused to reveal its secrets, its spectrum stubbornly flat, its atmosphere unreadable.

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...

For more than a decade, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division has invested in regional schools through STEM events, ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

“It’s all I ever wanted to do,” said Connolly, founding chair and professor in the Department of Geology within the School of Earth & Environment and a research associate in the Department of Earth ...

Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ASASSN-24fw, may have disappeared behind a giant planet with an enormous ...

Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...

Located on the third floor of Nevins Hall, the VSU Planetarium features a Digitarium Kappa digital projector, which can reproduce the night sky as seen from anywhere on Earth or from the surface of ...