The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner solar system. New research from Rice University reveals that Jupiter played a ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

The scene is burned into pop culture memory: a young Luke Skywalker, silhouetted against the vast desert, gazing wistfully as ...

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the identification of TOI-715 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 137 ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in computational power, algorithms, and theoretical methods, enabling accurate modeling and prediction of ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...