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New measurements by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) has detected water vapour in the inner disc of the system PDS 70, located 370 light-years away. This is the first detection...

Unlike Earth, Venus lacks the plate tectonics that give rise to volcanoes. But the surface of Venus looks far younger than other worlds, like Mars or the Moon, which means it does have volcanic activity that regularly re...

Learn how these fossils also show researchers how South Africa had a changing landscape.

A cosmic chameleon shows off its bright colors in a new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Director Christopher Nolan delivers an impactful 3-hour portrait of the brilliant physicist who altered humanity's fate.

Type I X-ray bursts are the most frequent types of thermonuclear stellar explosions in the galaxy. As the key nucleosynthesis process in X-ray bursts, the rapid proton capture process (rp-process) is always the important...

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 2 episode 6 lays some interesting ground work, but fails to amaze, much like the rest of the second season.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Imperial College London have spotted a "retired" asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star passing through a young star-forming region, something which was previously thought not...

One big question about Earth's formation is, where did all the water come from? New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows newly forming planets in a system 370 light-years away are surrounded by water vap...

The U.S. House of Representatives will hear from several witnesses who will offer accounts of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in order to assess government transparency surrounding the issue.

These demonic creatures appear in varied forms across Japanese art and folklore. Modern depictions of oni can still be seen in anime, films and TV shows today.

The Aeolus satellite will make its fiery return to Earth on Friday (July 28). In a pioneering operation, Aeolus will be guided back to Earth safely. However, the spacecraft won't be returning in one piece.

NASA's Perseverance rover took its 20th sample from "Emerald Lake," an area filled by rocks that were deposited by an ancient river. The post This Mess of Boulders Was Deposited by an Ancient River on Mars appeared first...

Rocky exoplanets could possess large amounts of water from the moment they form, observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest.

With breakthroughs in astronomical observation, scientists now have confirmed the existence of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The recent release of black hole images has further charged people's cur...

Asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are spherical, though many have a feature that can make them difficult to land on – they are essentially just collections of rocks loosely bound together by gravity. In spa...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope comes online, it could be capable of spotting as many as 400 Earth-size rogue planets, and that might merely be the tip of the iceberg.

Maxar Technologies announced July 24 that its new satellite bus designed for low Earth orbit constellations passed a critical design review. The post Maxar to begin production of new small satellite bus appeared first on...

Motion of the Earth's surface mass, including the atmosphere and oceans as well as hydrology and glacier melting, causes the redistribution of Earth's surface loads, deformation of the solid Earth, and variations in the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the MPIA-led MINDS research collaboration discovered water in the inner region of a disk of gas and dust around the young star PDS 70. Astronomers expect terrestrial planets to be fo...

Mermaid lore and legends are found worldwide, but does that mean mermaids are real? What inspired the tales of these mythical beings?

Chinese space and defense contractor CASIC says it will begin building a constellation of 300 satellites in very-low Earth orbit late this year. The post China's CASIC to begin launching VLEO satellites in December appea...