The Final Boundary An illustration of the Cosmic Event Horizon. Unlike the Observable Universe, which is defined by light that has reached u...

Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated (Gemini) Space Science is the multifaceted scientific discipline dedicated to the explorat...

An artist’s rendering of the spacecraft in the SWIFT constellation stationed in a triangular pyramid formation between the sun and Earth. A ...

According to Anton Vasyunin, scientists have obtained important information about the composition of interstellar ice. Photo Credit: UrFU pr...

In green, the habitable zone in the orbit of planet HD 20794. Image Credit: (Dumusque et al. 2025) © Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Thirty ye...

Image Credit: Scientific Frontline What if a solar storm a thousand times stronger than any recorded hit Earth today? Imagine a surge of ene...

An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust that allow...

Brandon Johnson and his team study impact craters around the solar system for clues about planetary bodies’ history and composition. Photo C...

The simulation shows the shape of the gas cloud on the left and the vortices, or regions of rapidly rotating flow, on the right. Each ring r...

Galactic gas shows varying heavy element distribution: blue indicates scarcity, red indicates richness. Heavy elements are less abundant in ...

For the first time, SwRI scientists used the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument to definitively detect oxygen and hyd...

This research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them in spectacular discs. Thi...

Detail of an unnamed valley network on Mars. Impact craters are marked with blue and red circles. Craters marked in red postdate the valley ...

Diagram showing the formation of formaldehyde (H2CO) in the warm atmosphere of ancient Mars and its conversion into molecules vital for life...

This artist’s impression shows the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310, where astronomers have found a scar imprinted on its surface as a resul...

The international team used a combination of X-ray, radio, and optical data to understand how this unusual chain of star clusters formed ste...

Eris and Makemake Image Credit: Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hy...

Infrared view of the universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI. Ever since the James Webb ...

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas/SwRI Using data from the retired Stratospheric Obser...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, MIT scientists say a planet’s carbon-lite atmosphere, relative to its neighbors, could be a sure an...