Scientists develop a forecasting system that predicts high-risk windows and regions for solar superflares, using 50 years of X-ray data and machine learning techniques.

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Standing inside a dome in Citadel Mall, under a simulated sky, it’s easy to forget how remarkable that is: a city known for its past now helping shape curiosity about the future. The Charleston ...

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology. This feature describes how one of the most important variables in cosmology, the expansion of the universe, takes on ...

A closer look at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, its core components, supporting evidence, and why new observations are ...

“While 3I/ATLAS is a visitor from interstellar space, travelling from outside the Solar System, its behaviour is completely ...

Six planets are set to align on Saturday, creating a planetary parade that will be visible to sky-gazers across the globe.

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Despite the dramatic name, these alignments aren’t exceptionally rare. The last six-planet parade occurred in January 2025, ...

On Thursday, Princeton University celebrated its leading role in NASA’s IMAP mission, highlighting how faculty and students are collaborating to study the boundary of our solar system and improve ...

It comes down to the speed at which these objects were moving during their formation, and the strength with which their ...

This newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, named COSMOS2020-635829, has a redshift of z = 1.156, meaning astronomers are seeing it as it existed about 8.5 billion years ago. That makes it the most ...