Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

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"It's quite a violent process in setting off from planet Earth towards space," Christoph Grainger-Herr, chief executive of ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

The drive to Meteor Crater takes you through quintessential Arizona landscape – endless horizons, scattered juniper and pinyon pines, and that particular shade of rusty orange soil that seems to exist ...

The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our grandparents," physicist Yu Hamada explained.

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations indicate that early galaxies were more chaotic than previous results suggested.