The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the source ...

The remaining episodes explore Dark Worlds in the least explored regions of space, Storm Worlds where planets are ravaged by extreme weather, frozen Ice Worlds and Strange Worlds - which looks at some ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

Skygazers are still waiting for the celestial event of the year, when a dance between two stars 3,000 light-years away ends in a massive explosion and creates a new dazzling temporary "star" in the ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a ...

Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

Honda says it envisions its hydrogen-powered regenerative system as part of a human settlement on the lunar surface. But it ...

Sometimes the answers are right in front of our nose, now its right in front of our feet,” Pielli said about the underground ...