For most of scientific history, chemical elements were identified through materials that could be handled, heated, weighed or ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal that the so-called “Roasted Planet” is getting cooked by its host ...

The young planetary system of the 23-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris (short: Beta Pic) is regarded as an iconic ...

Powerful winds from supermassive black holes may explain why some of the universe's largest galaxies stopped making as many ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected an unexplained chemical signature on both Pluto and Saturn's ...

Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic ...

Neutron sources can be directly identified from measured spectra rather than proxies using inference tools adapted from ...

While studying Pluto and Saturn’s largest moon Titan, researchers spotted a missing band of light in their spectral ...

Researchers at Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute have screened more than 6,000 known exoplanets and identified 45 ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from beyond the Solar System carrying a chemical story unlike anything astronomers had measured before ...

A rare super-Jupiter with a remarkably long 180-day orbit has emerged from years of patient observations, marking one of the ...