By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, researchers recalculated the age of the Earth’s Moon. Although previous assessments estimated the Moon as 4.425 billion years old, the new study discovered it is actually 4.46
The last remaining Northern Greenland ice shelves bracing the region's vast ice sheet have lost a third of their volume in the last four decades, researchers said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of "dramatic" sea level rise.
Rats use their imaginations in a similar way to humans, a new study shows – meaning their thoughts aren't always fixed on what's immediately in front of them, but can also travel in space and time.
New Academy Fellow Prof Louis-Noël Moresi FAA wants to know why Earth appears to be the only planet in our solar system with tectonic plates and how that set...
An astrophysicist explains new research has revealed atomic oxygen has been detected on a neighbouring planet, leading to more clues about the possibility of...
When the universe erupted into existence with the Big Bang, all of its matter was compressed into a tiny area. Cosmologists theorize that in some regions, subatomic matter may have been so tightly packed that matter collapsed into primordial black holes. If t…
"The stars in these young galaxies were remarkable, producing just the right amount of radiation to excite the surrounding gas. This gas, in turn, shone even brighter than the stars themselves."
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled an exquisite image of a nascent star breaking free from its birth cloud in the L1527 nebula. This celestia...
As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below and generate seismic waves. These seismic waves are so powerful and widespread that they show up as a steady thrum on seismographs, the same instruments used to monitor and study earthqua…