A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

As ecosystem engineers, beavers build resilience into the landscape. Above ground, we can see changes wrought by beaver ponds ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of air pollution. Evidence is now ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

During disease, ants rebuild their nests with new layouts that block contagion - offering new insights into how design can ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...