On Sept. 23, a spacecraft will launch with a clear mission — to keep a constant watch on the sun to help protect Earth from ...

Most people take the seasons for granted, but by using old satellite data, scientists have found that Earth's seasons might not be as dependable as we thought.

What happens when you hurl molecules faster than sound through a vacuum chamber nearly as cold as space itself? At the ...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more ...

Over the course of more than two decades, researchers at the University of Bern have developed the so-called "Bern model," a ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a strange disk of gas and dust around an infant star that could challenge current models of planet formation.

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

The protostellar source at the center of this research is Sh 2-283-1a SMM1, located approximately 26,000 light-years from Earth. This region, characterized by low metallicity—only one-third of the ...