In this gallery, we take a closer look at the planet’s interior structure and composition. From terrestrial planets to icy giants, we unravel the turbulent worlds hidden beneath the apparent calm ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It’s visiting from another solar system altogether. Those ...

New images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS indicate that the comet may be erupting in multiple ice volcanoes as it ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) near Sutherland is celebrating 20 years of observing the night sky.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed massive clouds of helium escaping from the exoplanet WASP-107 b. The observations ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server ...

An X2 class solar flare hit Earth last night, with more flares and a coronal mass ejection likely on the way. Modern humans ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

A new crew is heading to the International Space Station, just in time for Thanksgiving, to continue important research.

Kappa Tucanae A, 70 light-years away, hosts dust hotter than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit that should not survive. Astronomers ...

Researchers discovered that as the comet approached the Sun, a series of cryovolcanoes—nicknamed “ice volcanoes”—became ...