Scientist Jim Wild has traveled to the Arctic Circle numerous times to study the northern lights, but on Thursday night...
Once you know where to look for them, lichens are everywhere. These composite organisms—fungal and photosynthetic partners joined into a...
The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight...
Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth....
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the...
When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a...
Reionization is a critical period when the first stars and galaxies changed the physical structure of their surroundings, and eventually...
New research done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635...
A group of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at...
Planet AF Lep b is a world of firsts. In 2023, it was the lowest-mass planet outside our solar system...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a...
A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star...
