Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported sightings of a supernova that exploded when the ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has a new director. Norbert Holtkamp will take over Jan. 12, the University of Chicago ...

Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed as the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 12, 2026.

Being on the surface of a sizable planet moving at high speed through space, spinning around a yellow star and on its axis, ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Two international academic journals hosted by Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) have recently been indexed in Clarivate's ...

The ice giant classification is oversimplified as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,' said experts.

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.