This sent shockwaves through the science community. A shocking analysis of interstellar “tsunamis” has revealed where Earth’s ...

Two Massachusetts cranberry bogs that had stopped paying their way are producing fruit again, and the reason is a field of ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the true shape of a distant exoplanet orbiting a star 1,000 light-years away.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a distant alien planet's atmosphere is surprisingly lopsided. Located 1,300 light-years away, the scorching gas giant WASP-17b ...

A giant planet more than 1,000 light-years away has an atmosphere that extends farther on one side than the other.

A world 20 light-years from Earth appears to have a much more orderly atmosphere than its constantly changing clouds suggest.

In the process of thinking about "Why can sci-fi movies head to their destination stars without hesitation?", I realized that ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that appears green to the human eye, and the reddest ever recorded. These ...

A star survived the explosion that left behind Pa 30, a dandelion-shaped cloud of debris. The sharpest images yet show that ...

At Sotheby’s, a feast of rare science books includes volumes from Copernicus, Galileo and Newton that together revolutionized ...

Earth and Mars may have formed through very different processes, despite developing as neighbors in the early solar system.

A moon lost in interstellar darkness may still be able to hold on to liquid water, no star required. A modeling study ...