Sen. Maria Cantwell voted against the confirmation of Howard Lutnick as Secretary of the Department of Commerce, citing ...

Between layoffs and the Trump administration's controversial buyout offers, both agencies are in for a steep headcount reduction.

For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that, in the future, the atmosphere will revert back to one that's rich in ...

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in planetary science, revealing the complex weather of a distant gas giant with ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Our planet’s history is one of extreme climate cycles that repeat across time, with insights into the Earth’s previous ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.