The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful ... include creating auroras and stripping planets’ atmospheres. Here’s ...

"Starlink satellites look like a miniature version of the monolith from '2001: A Space Odyssey.' " A veteran NASA astronaut caught SpaceX satellites in action from the space station. NASA astronaut ...

A new JWST study has revealed the true origins of a luminous quasar that has been duplicated six times as its light "zig-zags ...

The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists. It ...

Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the early ...

Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence ...

A health-check for the planet – the report includes the Living Planet Index, which tracks how species populations have fared around the world over a 50-year period. Together with other indicators, the ...