Recent scientific developments include a fast-forming exoplanet, a remarkable image of a dying star, the discovery of a ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

The atlas covers the expanse of the universe and ... Launius writes that by this March, well over 5,000 exoplanets “had been confirmed by two or more separate sets of observations.” ...

If you spotted comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in person, or seen photos online this October, you might have been inspired to learn more about these visitors from the outer Solar System. Get ready ...

Step outside and enjoy Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) with unaided eyes and see it next to splashy open star clusters with binoculars or a small telescope. Travel to a dark spot on the 8th ...

An Oct. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Earth and another, larger planet beside it. "This is K2-18b, a potentially habitable planet covered with oceans and about 2.6 ...

Since 2018, the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN), a US National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded Cancer Moonshot SM initiative, has been compiling 3D atlases that integrate cellular, molecular and ...

The new Atlas of the Human Planet reveals 50 years of global population growth and urbanization trends, providing insights into how cities and rural areas have evolved. This data offers vital ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

The end-Triassic extinction along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events are the most severe mass extinctions in the past 270 million years. The exact mechanisms of the end-Triassic extinction ...

TOI-6651b is a unique exoplanet, weighing around 60 times the mass of Earth and having a radius approximately five times larger than Earth's. Listen to Story This distant planet orbits its Sun-like ...

Like Icarus, comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after flying too close the sun. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward ...