Astronomers have captured a cosmic butterfly. New images from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a jaw-dropping view of a ...

There exists a very special class of planets in the universe—ultra-short period planets. They are like "mysterious visitors" from interstellar space, challenging traditional understanding with their ...

There, nitrogen and methane have turned into ice, covering the entire planet. Yet in this icy landscape, scientists speculate that there may be a liquid ocean beneath the ice, and this ocean might ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The microgrid has other benefits: It's a resilient backup in the event of grid outages—no small matter in an era of ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...