TEHRAN (ANA)- The number of known mountains in Earth’s oceans has roughly doubled and global satellite observations have revealed nearly 20,000 previously unknown seamounts, scientists at the University of California said.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, a University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team looked more than 13 billion years into the past to discover a unique, minuscule galaxy that generated new stars at an extremely high rate for its size.

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.