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 ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

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

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

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 ...

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