Scientists may have found the hiding place of missing cosmic sulfur—in icy space dust, bound in crown-shaped and chain-like molecules that escape detection. For years, scientists studying the ...

Chile's the CiELO project is opening new frontiers in the study of how galaxies form and evolve, positioning the country as a ...

Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest stellar neighbor, has long captured the imagination of science fiction and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a scene on the nebula's fringes where the super star cluster R136 resides. Near R136 lives a rare type of stars known as Wolf-Rayet stars. These massive stars have ...

"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered a new fast radio burst, which ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

The 3I/ATLAS, which was first spotted on July 1, has the fastest velocity of any solar system visitor to date, NASA says. The comet’s 130,000 mph speed is nearly 100 times the speed of some bullets.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in ...

A team of engineers has unveiled an ambitious design for a massive 58 km long spacecraft named Chrysalis, capable of carrying ...