Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side Data from two Chinese orbiters helped a team of scientists explain why a patch of lunar terrain is so much warmer than the surrounding area.
Mountains Face More Extreme Rain and Less Snow, Study Finds High-altitude regions will get more extreme rain than previously thought, making floods and landslides more likely, a study finds.
The ‘Forbidden Planet’ That Escaped a Fiery Doom The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago. Scientists now think they know how the planet cheated death.
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer.
Phosphorus in Enceladus’s ‘Soda Ocean’ Adds to Prospects for Life Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists discovered the presence of phosphates on icy Enceladus.