The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

In recent weeks, you've likely heard a lot about rare-earth substances with hard-to-pronounce names, but experts warn that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system.

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

Coal ash in the U.S. holds substantial rare earth elements, potentially reducing dependence on imports, with ongoing research ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday that he said will “dramatically increase” U.S. production of ...

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying sulfur-based molecules in space, scientists are working to understand the ...