Astronomers are increasingly finding planets that do not simply circle their stars in neat, clockwork ellipses but instead trace out paths that look more like intricate choreography. The latest ...

Do they look similar to Jupiter? A new study finds they probably don't. Before getting into the details, let's talk about the ...

Using specialist equipment, including diffraction glasses, an infrared camera, and UV-sensitive beads, children investigated how light behaves and uncovered the hidden world beyond what the human eye ...

Mark Matney’s fresh hypothesis suggests that the Star of Bethlehem may have been a bright comet that briefly appeared to stand still in the sky.

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is venting significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen ...

The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be seeding the worlds of this solar system with the early stages of life, new ...

Clocks tick faster on Mars than they do on Earth, in part because Mars experiences less gravitational pull from the Sun. Now scientists have calculated just how much faster -- 477 microseconds, on ...

Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth’s surface some ...

A scarecrow wedding, a tour around wild London and the return of The Night Manager are among some of the festive highlights ...