The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by...
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these...
A team of scientists found NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of...
Our solar system is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which...
The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets have been...
A small asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere over the Norwegian Sea before disintegrating on March 11, 2022. But this event wasn’t...
Aided by microbes found in the subarctic conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay, an international team—including researchers from Portugal’s Instituto Superior...
Astronomers have imaged a beam of matter and antimatter that is 40 trillion miles long with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory....
The solar system has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class that contains...
With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the...
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented...
Scientists have unraveled the science behind the jets of plasma—the fourth state of matter consisting of electrically charged particles that...
