The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The BJP demanded that the Election Commission of India (ECI) bar Kejriwal from campaigning for his claim that the Haryana government was intentionally poisoning the Yamuna water, which supplies Delhi.

The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. This object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. The Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster ...

Ammonia, used in fertilizer ... his team crushed up iron-rich minerals and added nitrates (a nitrogen source), water (a hydrogen source), and a catalyst to help reactions along in a small reactor ...

(Bloomberg) — Emirati firm Fertiglobe Plc intends to invest more than $1 billion to produce cleaner ammonia if it gets commitments to buy from Asia. Japan and South Korea both have plans to subsidize ...

The night sky was dotted with more than 100 nebulous objects cataloged in the late 1700s by French astronomer Charles Messier. Most were identified as star clusters, nebulae, supernova remnants, or ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never know it. Through a telescope, they make the ...

Dipartimento di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7, Torino 10125, Italy ...

The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886. Its intrinsic structure has been debated for as long as it has been observed.