The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

The most energetic events in the universe are gamma ray bursts, beams of radiation so intense they could wipe out all life on ...

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

Comet Lemmon should be visible to the naked eye as it approaches the sun this month. Here are the best locations around Ohio ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, Charles Messier spotted the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) for the first time. Writing of it a few months later, he ...

Space is filled with outliers. While some solar systems function similarly to ours, others embody astrophysical properties that scientists still cannot explain. Some extrasolar gas giants, for ...

Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts contains a ratio of sulfur ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

Armillary rings emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries during the birth of the scientific revolution and rise of astronomy ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...