When the supernova explodes, all the elements produced are thrown out into the Universe. The heavy elements found on Earth, such as gold, came from material thrown out in previous supernova ...

It orbits Earth every 95 minutes, travelling at a speed of 17,000 mph (or just over 27,000 km/h). Universe: the universe is everything. It is everything we can touch, feel, sense, measure or detect.

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... Paul Chodas, manager for the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet that sits some 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) below the surface.

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

That meant that things farther away from Earth were moving away faster. In other words, the universe must be expanding. He announced his finding in 1929. The ratio of distance to redshift was 170 ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ... Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more ...

In the past, people thought the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it. This was a fairly ...

But unlike the jet formed by J1601+3102, Porphyrion was found 7.5 billion light-years away from Earth in what’s called the “nearby” universe, rather than the early universe, according to the ...