My colleague just spent two months on a research icebreaker. It changed his perspective on the world in ways he didn’t expect ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

When an asteroid approaching the Earth flies through the planet in a passage that is as close as the EarthMoon neighborhood, the least significant consequence is drama. It is calibration: an ...

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

According to the new data, Jupiter's radius measures 71,488 kilometers (44,421 miles) at its equator, and the planet rises 66 ...

Thanks to new data from the Juno mission to Jupiter, we have discovered that the planet is slightly smaller than previously thought, and more oblate.

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Two touchscreen controllers join Microchip’s maXTouch M1 family, expanding support for automotive displays over a wider range of form factors. The ATMXT3072M1-HC and ATMXT288M1 cover free-form ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This Saturn-sized rogue planet was discovered by an international team of scientists using ...

When we imagine a planet, we think of one like ours, orbiting a star. But some have a far lonelier existence, drifting through interstellar space without a sun to call their own. Known as “rogue” or ...

Close-up images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that Mercury’s surface records impacts of almost unimaginable scale. Bright ray systems radiate from certain craters, stretching hundreds and ...