The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such as ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

T he Moon is certainly not a colorful world. Forget the crimson hue of Mars or the blue of Neptune. Our natural satellite is instead in grayscale, a magnificent desolation that only changes color in ...

New findings from the University of Bonn challenge the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. The faint "afterglow" ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary space science. The U.S. is building ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery in the YSES-1 system, 300 light-years away. It revealed ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

Scientists from the Natural History Museum have unravelled the geological mysteries behind jadarite, a rare lithium-bearing mineral with the potential to power Europe's green energy transition which, ...

After fifteen years of stagnation, platinum has woken up in a big way, with an impressive 36% surge over the past two months.

"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...

June 21 will be the longest day and shortest night of the year.