You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NORWAY — In a recent column, I expressed amazement that one side of our Moon ...

Lightning, with its extreme temperatures, is capable of transforming atmospheric gases into prebiotic compounds. These molecules are essential for the emergence of life, as may have been the case on ...

Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked — with one side permanently facing their host star — according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes ...

The inner moons of Jupiter and Saturn migrate outwards due to tidal energy dissipation within the planets, the details of which remain poorly understood. We demonstrate that resonance locking between ...

Even a thin atmosphere can keep a planet spinning freely, giving it a day-and-night cycle like Earth's, say astronomers in Canada and France. The result implies that many of the planets lying within ...