By combining the four giant telescopes of the Very Large Telescope, an international team has observed the exoplanet WASP-121b with unprecedented precision, revealing one of the most extreme climates ...

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

We’re all familiar with vaccines delivered by a needle into the arm. However, scientists at Stanford Medicine recently ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

In the pursuit of carbon neutrality, the world is undergoing a third energy revolution driven by renewable energy sources and supported by various types of batteries. Hydrogen energy, as a zero-carbon ...

The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

Our planet’s history is one of extreme climate cycles that repeat across time, with insights into the Earth’s previous ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.