New research reveals that tire pollution is a far bigger problem than previously thought, with implications for marine life ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

For millions of years, a tiny icy fragment wandered through space—like a sealed bottle drifting across a cosmic ocean. This ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

Uranus and Neptune are the two furthest planets in the Solar System and have been visited only once by human spacecraft – by ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...