A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering collection of water—equal to 140 trillion times the volume of Earth's ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

With 17 river stretches polluted and tourism adding to the burden, the Karnataka government banned the sale of soaps and shampoo near water bodies, citing risks to aquatic life and human health.

North Carolina environmental regulators are ordering Chemours to dramatically expand PFAS well testing around its Fayetteville Works plant, adding tens of thousands of homes now eligible for free ...

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...

Secret Service personnel shot an armed man near the White House early Sunday, hours after obtaining information that a suicidal man might be traveling to Washington, D.C., from Indiana ...