Improving research on planetary formation comes from an out-of-this-world innovation made right here in Michigan. In previous models, simulations resulted in an amorphous blob, as if the batter was ...

New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

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Video games have featured memorable food for decades, even when it only existed in pixels. Recreating those meals in real life raises an interesting question about taste versus nostalgia. Some dishes ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Astronomers have found a compact new cluster of objects inside the Kuiper belt, which is a distant band of icy bodies at the edge of our solar system beyond Neptune. The cluster sits 4.0 billion miles ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

The system combined solar and nuclear power in a one-year operational simulation. (Representational image)GettyImages Researchers at China’s Guangdong Power Grid have proposed a new hybrid microgrid ...