When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...
MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...
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Comet 3I/ATLAS shows signs of water

Since its arrival this summer, scientists have been racing to understand as much as possible about 3I/ATLAS, the third ...
Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...
By not spending monies appropriated for Biden-era clean energy bills, the president is helping China win the global energy race.
The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...
Getting solar on your roof just got a whole lot easier. WEL Networks has just launched New Zealand’s first fully automated ...
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 ...
Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...
Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...
The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was ...