Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Gravity may not be a fundamental force of nature, but a byproduct of the universe streamlining information like a cosmic ...

Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

Science textbooks may be in for another revision. Our solar system shrank from nine planets to eight after the International ...

Near the constellation Leo, JWST turned its gaze slightly aside. In the dim stars of Sextans, it spotted something ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

Researchers in the US and Japan are racing to build new particle detectors that they hope will explain why the Universe ...

Everything we visualize about space, including stars, planets, gases, and even galaxies, make up just a small fraction of the ...

The Sonoma Coast, with its dark skies, attracts night photographers for celestial photography, especially during favorable ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.