The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for.

Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in ...

Explore the remarkable similarities and differences between sperm whales and giant squid, from size and behavior to diet and ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Purdue-led research into scattered rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows evidence the dry, dusty red planet could have once supported a humid, rain-heavy climate billions of years ago.

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...