New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Albedo is building satellites to map and monitor the Earth with powerful precision and detail for use in agriculture, energy, ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

The database, which is now public, was launched by the Investigative Journalism Foundation. It contains letters from parents, ...

The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...

Europe has warmed about twice as much as the world as a whole, the 2024 European State of the Climate Report said. Here are ...