TEHRAN (ANA)- Rocky planets might have been forming since the beginning of the universe, researchers at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, found.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Martian dirt may have all the necessary nutrients for growing rice, one of humankind’s most important foods, planetary scientists at the University of Arkansas found.

TEHRAN (ANA)- The hellscape of Venus is riddled with even more volcanoes than scientists thought, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis reported.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers from the University of California – Riverside have compiled a list of Venus analogues to gain valuable insights into Earth’s future.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Life might arise in the darkest of places and the moon of a planet wandering the galaxy without a star, scientists at the European Southern Observatory in Garching have found.

TEHRAN (ANA)- A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a University of California, Riverside (UCR), experiment.

TEHRAN (ANA)- An international team of researchers under the leadership of Dr Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne's Institute of Astrophysics has discovered a very young star in its formation phase near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the centre of our Milky Way.

TEHRAN (ANA)- The innermost core of the Earth is likely a ball of iron with a radius of approximately 650 km, a research by the Australian National University has found.

TEHRAN (ANA)- A new study from a University of Chicago scientist suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock ringing the Earth, at the very bottom of the upper mantle.

TEHRAN (ANA)- An international team of researchers, led by Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin from the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich and including Andrew Steele from Carnegie, has discovered a vast diversity of organic compounds in the Martian meteorite Tissint.