NASA's IR space scope explores the Milky Way’s most prolific star-forming region, cracking open new secrets of how stars form.

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger ...

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

Amazon is racing to catch up to Starlink in the battle for satellite internet dominance, and it’s creating problems for ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the ...

Working on comet 3I/ATLAS: A French astronomer has gone viral after saying she “works on comet 3I/ATLAS,” sparking curiosity ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe ...