New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building ...

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Under the measures, anyone marketing or selling a residential solar energy device in Hawaii would need to follow state ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

It comes down to the speed at which these objects were moving during their formation, and the strength with which their ...

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...

The 300 MW / 30 GWh multi-day storage system from Form Energy will be paired with 1.6 GW of new renewables to facilitate Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy goals.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...