A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

The original story “ Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a nearby spiral galaxy known ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To ...

This illustration shows how Earth’s spin axis (blue) is tilted from perpendicular, causing it to precess and trace out a circle over about 26,000 years. The brightest star nearest the North Celestial ...

It's a new window into the first star explosions.

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual ...