WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some people are two-faced, figuratively speaking of course. The ancient Roman god Janus was two-faced, literally - with one looking forward and another backward, representing ...

A NASA spacecraft for the first time has arrived at a dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration. The space agency on Friday confirmed that the Dawn craft entered orbit around Ceres in the asteroid ...

Nasa was last night celebrating the arrival of its space probe into the orbit of dwarf planet Ceres. But Kiwi stargazers will have to wait several weeks to see any fresh footage from the Dawn probe as ...

If a real Captain Kirk ever blasts off for other stars in search of rocky planets like ours, he may find lots of strange new worlds whose innards actually bear no resemblance to Earth’s. A smattering ...

A University of Oklahoma astrophysicist, Mukremin Kilic, and his team have discovered two detached, eclipsing double white dwarf binaries with orbital periods of 40 and 46 minutes, respectively. White ...

Nature knows two opposite types of solids: One that emerges upon compression from a liquid and a second that appears if the pressure on a liquid is reduced. While the former is typical for substances ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 1,300 light years from Earth Washington: Some people are two-faced, figuratively speaking of course. The ancient Roman god Janus was two-faced, ...

Scientists have observed a white dwarf star - a hot stellar remnant that is among the densest objects in the cosmos - that they have nicknamed Janus owing to the fact it has the peculiar distinction ...