The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions ...

I am a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, my colleagues and I discovered the first intact planet orbiting around a white dwarf. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula.

James Webb has revealed that the Butterfly Nebula hides a complex mix of gemstone-like crystals, fiery dust, and unexpected ...

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona ...

Every once in a while, you may look up toward the sun and see strange bright lights on either side of it. Or perhaps you'll be sitting in an aircraft, looking out the window at its shadow, and see a ...

The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.

Students from Western University are in northern Ontario this week to launch an infrared camera the size of the tennis ball into the Earth’s stratosphere.