Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Scientists explore whether oxygen is a key factor in allowing alien civilizations to emerge and thrive with the development ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

Learn more about the water molecules on the moon, which may trace their origins to the materials that made Earth and comets.

If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, you may have ...

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have revolutionized our understanding of the solar system's formation with ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal: if it looks the same no matter the scale. And the answer is: no, not really. But in some ways, yes.

SpaceX stunned onlookers when it returned a Super Heavy booster to a precise landing at its launchpad. But the resulting ...

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...

"We came across a group of outbursting variable stars exhibiting very characteristic triangle-shaped symmetrical outbursts ...