Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

A series of experiments support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope that found evidence that the icy surface of ... on its structure. On Earth, crystalline ice ...

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...

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To gain a better picture of ... and 400 times stronger than Earth's. "It's astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter's physical state at ...

If you look just right, the Sun appears to be opening its mouth and laughing at us — and that "smile" is weirder than you'd ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

But a team of scientists has created a new way to answer whether aliens exist. Daniel Apai, an astrophysicist and ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...

Once a star reaches the end of its life stage and becomes a red giant, any chance for life is extinguished. This is also true ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for ...