The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Scientists have watched in fascination as interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, only the third of its kind spotted in the solar system so far, hurtled past several planets and made its closest pass of the Sun ...

The new capability lets scientists simulate and visually inspect automated experiments before robots run them.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

A viral video captures an incredible “solar halo” forming above the Great Pyramid of Giza. (Image: X/@astrooalert) Rare solar halo perfectly seen over Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid's sides align ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

The Gambia’s agricultural sector, which is predominantly rain-fed and employs 70% of the labor force, is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change. This study assesses the impacts of projected ...

A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed the ice giant for nearly a full rotation, ...

Scientists want to use a solar slingshot to catch up with the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, that thing that may-or-may-not have been a UFO. In the months since 3I/ATLAS was spotted drifting into our ...