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 ...

An international team with major contributions from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has found the first observational signature consistent with ambipolar diffusion in a ...

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...

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

Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the "hot" in "Hot Jupiter." ...

Researchers in Texas Tech's Department of Physics & Astronomy transformed data from a 2017 stellar explosion into sound, ...