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 ...

New NASA supercomputer simulations show that Saturn's rings may have been formed by a 'massive collision' of icy moons.

Home to five national parks and steeped in geological history, Utah is an adventurer’s dream – with a chance to stumble across the fossilised remains of a mammoth while hiking, abseil down the steep ...

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 ...

In the Solar System, there’s only one other gas giant: Saturn, currently visible to the west in the early evening. Leaving ...

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