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

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

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.

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

NASA employees and contractors don’t know what tomorrow will bring - or even if they’ll have jobs. With President Donald ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether humanity’s existence is a rare cosmic accident or the natural outcome of ...