Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of the solar system, with a diametre of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

See Comet Lemmon shine in the skies over England in a new sunset portrait. Award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury has ...

In an interview with the BBC, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing its original composition. The new MIT findings challenge that view.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

For millions of years, a tiny icy fragment wandered through space—like a sealed bottle drifting across a cosmic ocean. This ...