Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

The new moon on January 18, 2026, will bring one of the darkest and clearest nights of the year, giving skywatchers an ideal ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn't orbit a star, by measuring ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 confirmed satellites. The surge, driven by deep imaging and clever data ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

NASA’s Cassini space probe orbited Saturn for 13 years, when, with its mission complete, it entered a controlled descent, burning up in the ringed planet’s atmosphere. Before its fiery demise, however ...