China's Zhurong rover was equipped with a ground-penetrating radar system, allowing it to peer beneath Mars's surface. Researchers have announced new results from the scans of Zhurong's landing site in Utopia Planitia, saying they identified irregular polygon…
Dr. Sabine Stanley, professor and author of "What's Hidden Inside Planets?," joins Good Day Chicago to talk about fascinating interiors of planets and how sc...
In 2021, scientists experimenting with fiber optics picked up a strange signal: the cacophony of cicadas. It could lead to a new way of monitoring insects.
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disc in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago.
Indian Himalayan Chandra Telescope captures Comet P12/Pons-Brooks, a 350,000 km behemoth, revealing its dynamic outbursts and upcoming dazzling display near Earth and the Sun.
According to satellite images from a study led by University of Leeds glaciologist Benjamin Wallis, Cadman Glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula has shifted 8 kilometers in just two-and-a-half years. The study, conducted between November 2018 and May 2021, …
Nature has a way of surprising us, and the recent sightings of green and purple lights in the northern skies have sparked curiosity. Initially assumed to be auroras, these vibrant ribbons are, in fact, a unique atmospheric phenomenon known as ..
University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences Francis Nimmo recently co-authored a Science Advances paper about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Eris.
NASA's Odyssey orbiter recently shared a new image of the Martian horizon, unveiling what astronauts on Mars might see someday. The image was snapped by Odyssey orbiter from an altitude of 400 kilometres (250 miles) that's similar to the average altitude of t…
NASA revealed that five huge asteroids are going to pass close to Earth in the coming days! One asteroid is a 470-foot monster, which is equivalent to a massive building. Know more here.