DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

The 25-kg contraption (slightly larger than a shoebox) will essentially scan the skies and map debris as small as 5 cm in Low-Earth Orbit, providing maps and data, for a fee, to clients from among ...

NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Maps can explain Life’s presence on planet Earth. This blending of biology and geography now constitutes the discipline known as “biogeography.” As a body of science-based knowledge ...

Pic: NMS/Neil Hanna Dinosaur finds are rare in Scotland and much of the rock that is exposed at the surface across the country is not from the period when the animals ruled the earth - the ...

Originally dug by a mining company to provide farmers with marl, a sandy green soil used as fertilizer, the site has also revealed the Mesozoic motherload ... As founding dean of the School of Earth ...

As illustrated in the map below, based on data from the latest U.S. Geological Survey report on rare earths, China holds the world's largest rare earth reserves, estimated at 44 million metric tons.

(Getty Images. Earth maps courtesy of NASA) "This work also highlights that a world within the so-called ‘habitable zone’ of a solar system may not be the most hospitable for humans depending ...