It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched...
Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26—altering its orbit...
Surrounded by a vast ocean underneath a thick ice shell, Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life....
The U.K.’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from...
Based partly on data from generations of NASA missions, including NASA’s Voyager and Cassini, the work could help scientists determine...
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are “water worlds,”...
Water has puzzled scientists for decades. For the last 30 years or so, they have theorized that when cooled down...
Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter...
Scientists taking a “deep dive” into one of Webb’s iconic first images have discovered dozens of energetic jets and outflows...
An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of...
Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years...
Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about...
