TACC’s Frontera, the fastest academic supercomputer in the US, is a strategic national capability computing system funded by the National Sc...

This image taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter shows an oblique view focusing on one of the vast lava flows in Ely...

Runaway greenhouse effect can transform a temperate habitable planet with surface liquid water ocean into a hot steam dominated planet hosti...

An artist’s conception of the hydrogen being stripped from one half of a binary system, leaving a very hot, helium rich exposed core that wi...

Optical images of the Ryugu sample (left) and the CI chondrite (Orgueil ; right). Image Credit: ©Kana Amano et al. A groundbreaking study co...

Fig. 1 An illustration depicting the distribution of interstellar medium in the active galactic nucleus based on the results of this observa...

Modeling by Cornell astronomers finds that telescopes could more easily detect an exoplanet with higher levels of atmospheric oxygen than mo...

Video Credit: California Institute of Technology In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusua...

Superimposed images of FH1 flight recorded in Finland. Photo Credit: Maria Gritsevich Apparently interstellar meteors may be the result of a...

Artist's depiction of a star system that is crowded with giant planets. Illustration Credit: NASA/Dana Berry Giant gas planets can be ag...

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL A new study found that Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet according to scientists, may have once had tectonic p...

A more efficient simulation. During a supernova simulation, (left) shows the prediction by a current simulation method. (right) shows the pr...

Artist view of Mars interior structure showing a molten layer at the base of the mantle and above the core. The purple line shows the path f...

Kapustin Yar meteorite Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ural Federal University Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Sibe...

As Earth formed, new geologic processes, especially those related to the interaction of hot fluids with rock during igneous activity and pla...

An example of a cosmic-ray extensive air shower recorded by the Subaru Telescope. The highlighted tracks, which are mostly aligned in simila...

Earthquake map. Data on earthquakes was taken from Japan’s Kanto region (including Tokyo and Narita) and Izumo in the Chugoku region (north ...

PhD student Ji-In Jung, left, and Assistant Professor Sonia Tikoo examine a collection of lunar samples.  Photo Credit: Harry Gregory By dem...

Earth’s Geological History Tied to Astronomical Motions—Not Just the Planet’s Interior Illustration Credit: Scientific Frontline Climate cha...

Video Credit: Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Simone Marchi collaborated on a new study finding the first ge...