According to the DOE’s recent budget request, though, E3SM will continue to exist, but seemingly without one of its primary ...

Sometimes in science a negative result is just as important as a positive one. And sometimes data artifacts get the better of ...

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet ...

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

Scientists have pinpointed Jupiter's birth to 4.6 billion years ago, a mere 1.8 million years after the solar system's formation. This discovery, glea ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as ...

The dawn of the 20th century brought exciting advancements, including the automobile, mechanical flight and wireless ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the ...

Scientists theorised about the possibility of Planet Y after spotting a strange ‘warp’ in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of ...