A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

This week, students and scientists at Stanford have been rolling out innovations waiting to be scaled up and potentially help ...

All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Pairs of planetary-mass objects, floating freely in space, intrigue scientists with their nature and origin. With masses ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...