We know that the Earth has an iron core surrounded by a mantle of silicate bedrock and water (oceans) on its surface. Science has used this simple planet model until today for investigating ...

Half of Gen Z Americans consider themselves mom and dad — to their pet, according to new research. Older generations don’t.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

This is a gallery of exoplanets with retrograde orbits. Exoplanets, discovered by WASP together with ESO telescopes, that unexpectedly have been found to have retrograde orbits, are shown in this ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and … ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken direct images of a distant planetary system, revealing two exotic giant exoplanets.

On the JWST, they enable high-contrast imaging of exoplanets in the near- to mid-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Astronomy Exoplanets Exoplanet 'baby pictures' reveal exomoons possibly taking shape around infant worlds News By Robert Lea published 22 March 2025 ...

People Are Asking How We Took Those "Fancy Pictures" Of Our Own Galaxy Fortunately, NASA has a fairly simple answer.

A version of this article appears in print on May 10, 2025, Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Zuckerberg’s ‘Actual Friends’ Line At Center of Meta’s Antitrust Trial.

Crafting trade deals can take months, if not years, and involve dozens of officials across the federal government with expertise in the affected countries and industries.