Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

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

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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 ...

Michael Aranda sits in for Hank to talk about the forces of nature that conspired to form Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ...

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

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

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

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

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...