The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

A 2017 satellite photo shows the stark contrast along the boundary between a giant field of golden "star dunes" and a barren ...

October 2025 promises an exciting month for skywatchers as multiple celestial events unfold across the globe. From bright ...

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

NASA's GRACE satellite detected a large gravity anomaly over the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, Earth-based observatories saw a rapid shift in the planet's geomagnetic field.

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said ...

The full moon next month will also be close to Saturn in the night sky, making for a beautiful naked-eye spectacle of moon ...

Scientists solve a 15-year Mars mystery, confirming ferric hydroxysulfate formed by volcanic and hydrothermal heating across ...