The precise chemical composition of the Sun, particularly the abundance of heavy elements like oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and neon relative to hydrogen, remains a significant point of contention in ...

Approximate true color image of comet 67P taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on March 17, 2015. This image is a four frame mosaic, with each color frame imaged through ...

CHENNAI, (IANS) – India’s moon rover has found the presence of oxygen, aluminum, sulfur and other elements near the lunar south pole, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on August 29.

Researchers have discovered and characterized a new form of oxygen dubbed 'featherweight oxygen' -- the lightest-ever version of the familiar chemical element oxygen, with only three neutrons to its ...

As astronomers gaze into the depths of space, they do so with unease: They don’t know precisely what the universe is made of. It’s not just the true nature of dark matter that eludes them; so does the ...