The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even Earth—is older than the disk's star itself, offering breakthrough insights into ...

India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA ...

In an interview with the BBC, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of ...

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 ...

Shifts in Earth’s climate and ecosystems will have untold consequences for billions of people across the world.

While Saturn 's magnificent rings, spanning 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometres), are a familiar celestial marvel, scientists ...

The world has reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes ...

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 ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

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 ...