A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved a significant breakthrough through international collaboration. They utilized the Atacama ...

Witnessing a meteor, or \"shooting star,\" is a dazzling event caused by tiny space rocks burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star opened the door to exploring this profound ...

Groundbreaking scientific findings on how swirling matter can form stars, planets and supermassive black holes earned a team ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling around 27 infant stars—evidence that planets start taking shape just a few ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with ...