A powerful space telescope has spotted an extremely rare "Einstein ring" of light around a nearby galaxy. The "beautiful" ...

In a new study published today in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers from New York University Abu Dhabi, NYUAD, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in Pasadena, California, shared new ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Following the recent Wolf Moon in a celestial game of peekaboo with Mars, January is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle for stargazers, with a parade of planets crisscrossing the skies above ...

What’s more, his home security camera caught the impact on video—capturing a rare clip that might be the first known recording of both the visual and audio of a meteorite striking the planet.

(The Hill) – Human-caused climate change was responsible for about a quarter of the fuel available for the wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area, according to research from ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of ... the next generation of stars and planets when we observe these amazing ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today. When you purchase through ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the mission into orbit around the planet ... aims to study: the direction ...

These latter components condense at different levels to form clouds, which reflect sunlight to create the planet's striking appearance. Because ammonia is known to be present in Jupiter's ...

Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk ... in our solar system than we had thought," study co-author Bruno Sicardy of the Paris Observatory ...