An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has observed the atmosphere...
One way to understand the potential for life on far-off planets—those in other solar systems that orbit different stars—is to...
Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That’s...
One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us...
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell astronomers have...
The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have...
In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up...
Gravity study gives insights into hidden features beneath lost ocean of Mars and rising Olympus Mons
Studies of gravity variations at Mars have revealed dense, large-scale structures hidden beneath the sediment layers of a lost ocean....
Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of the Great Bear....
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO),...
