Earth May Not Be So Special After All, New Study Finds
Illustration of exoplanet K2-18b. The planet is thought to have a thick gas envelope and no global ocean.…
Solar system’s asteroid belt disappearing, houses 1.9 million large rocks
Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid…
Black holes inside giant stars may have been spotted for first time
New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could shed light on mysterious “little red dots” first…
New Simulations Decode Its Secrets
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus loses ice mass to space by cryovolcanic geyers, and new TACC supercomputer simulations have…
Mystery Ozone Surge Discovered in Mars’s Winter Darkness
A view of the north pole of Mars, created by taking images as seen by the European Space…
Scientists detect ‘first heartbeat’ of one of farthest neutron stars
A team of astronomers claims it has observed the birth of an unusual cosmic object. In an observation…
Interstellar comet swinging past Mars as a fleet of spacecraft looks on
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A comet from another star system will swing by Mars on Friday as a…
What’s next for comet 3I/ATLAS? How far it is from Earth, sun
The discovery that 3I/ATLAS is making a short journey into and out of our solar system has sparked…
Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate
Press Release 2 October 2025 Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike…
Study adds to possibility of favorable conditions for life at Saturn’s moon Enceladus
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon…
Scientists Find Cosmic “Fingerprints” of Mysterious Dark Matter
Rutgers researchers have mapped hidden patterns of dark matter by studying distant star-forming galaxies, uncovering clues about how…
A Soft Collision in the Early Solar System May Explain Mercury’s Giant Metal Heart
In the crowded early Solar System, young planets frequently collided and reshaped each other. But Mercury stood out.…