Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Cells at the bottom of a liquid medium begin levitating, then hovering at a particular height. With no physical contact, an ...

In a discovery that opens a rare observational window into moon formation, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Electrical equipment housed within auxiliary buildings of nuclear power plants—such as control panels, transformers, and ...

High over the island of Sicily, Mount Etna smolders as Europe’s most active volcano. Underneath its rough slopes, a network ...

A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...