Why Earth didn’t grow to super-Earth in early solar system
Before the solar system had planets, the sun had rings — bands of dust and gas similar to Saturn’s rings — that likely played...
Our Milky Way may be more fluffy, less wiry, shows study
Our Milky Way has long been known to be a spiral galaxy, shaped much like a fried egg with a bulbous central bulge and...
How do the James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared eyes work
The technology onboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which launched on December 26, makes it the most powerful space telescope in history.
University of Arizona...
This Mars-sized planet orbits extremely close to its host star
The planetary nature of a Mars-sized object orbiting extremely closely to an M-dwarf star has been validated using the Penn State Habitable-zone Planet Finder...
This stunning image reveals the secrets of Milky Way’s neighbor
A stunning image captured by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, shows one of the Milky Way's...
NASA’s largest and most powerful telescope launches
On December 25, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever constructed by NASA was successfully launched from Earth.
With unprecedented technology, the James Webb...
Billions of starless planets haunt dark cloud cradles, shows study
In Lovecraftian horror, the Universe is filled with “dark planets” ungraced by the light of a host star.
New research shows that reality might be...
Fiery dragon’s breath may scorch young planets
Like a dragon of legend, the star EK Draconis has belched out a stream of flaming gas.
This is the first time such a supermassive...
Scientists find one more common ground between earth and Mars
Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of...
Scientists find the largest group of rogue planets yet
Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a...