With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance...
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star,...
Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space...
Imagine if Earth’s history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These...
New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here on Earth. Researchers investigated whether...
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously...
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these...
Scientists have long thought that our solar system’s ocean worlds, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, may...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles...
Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals...
