An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

We’re all familiar with the layers making up our planet’s structure. A study published in 2021 used seismic waves to build a ...

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

One of the world’s foremost climate models, a DOE initiative a decade in the works, now faces funding threats.

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

The string of planets continues to stretch across our predawn skies, with Saturn reaching its brightest in over 15 years.

The history of carbon dioxide’s role in life on Earth combined with a call to climate action makes for compelling reading, ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Discover the largest species of jellyfish on the planet and be amazed by the wonders living in the deep blue sea.

No Man's Sky just got a massive new update so big "the game has had to be reworked" to fit in its features, but that's not what I'm here to tell you about – I'm here to point you towards some ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered new details in the Butterfly Nebula, offering clues to how rocky planets like Earth are formed.