The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

Scientists Identify the Oldest Material on Earth in a Meteorite, Stunned to Find It Predates the Sun Scientists analyzed ...

19, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system ... of a galaxy in the early universe ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4 percent agreement, and 58.2 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

This configuration suggests a growth of the galaxy from the inside out, a process still poorly understood in the first few billion years of the Universe. The star formation rate of Zhúlóng is ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the Nebular Hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...