If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks...
Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies—and even before the violent explosion...
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as...
The seven other planets in our solar system will line up in the night sky on Friday evening for a...
When the sun hurled enormous amounts of radiation into space in an explosive eruption on February 22, 2024, the Indian...
by Julia Reichelt, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for...
Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming...
Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will...
A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first...
Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form...
