For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

Comet Lemmon is currently racing toward the Sun, while the fainter Comet SWAN is moving away. Both are set to make their ...

Impossible molecular combinations are possible on Saturn’s moon Titan, changing our understanding the potentially ...

A comet discovered earlier this year, now just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, is poised to be among the top ...

Titan, with its thick nitrogen and methane atmosphere and bizarre orange-hued landscape of lakes and dunes, closely resembles ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

While Saturn 's magnificent rings, spanning 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometres), are a familiar celestial marvel, scientists ...

Researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA have discovered an unexpected chemical interaction on Saturn’s moon ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

Artemis is the “goddess of the Moon and the hunt in Greek mythology,” researchers said, and the changing shell shapes of the new species is likened “to the moon’s waxing and waning.” The species has ...