Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.
Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...
Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.
Far beyond the blue sky and the familiar glow of the aurora, Earth is wrapped in a vast, ghostly shroud of hydrogen that ...
The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind ...
P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...
Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...
A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...
Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what’s likely to happen in the real world. They are ...
When the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS swept past Earth on 19 December 2025, it did so under intense global scrutiny.
NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...