A planet that doesn’t orbit a star is devouring matter at a staggering rate. Scientists are stunned by its behaviour. See what makes it unlike anything we’ve seen ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of NGC 6000, a barred spiral galaxy. It displays a yellow core of old ...

Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

A solar emulsion evaporator built with graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes adapts to oil, salt, and microbes, maintaining ...

A mysterious celestial body speeding through the solar system and shedding metals was captured in July by the Very Large ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

Today marks a new era in the history of Scripps Institution of Oceanography as Meenakshi Wadhwa takes the reins as the 12th ...

A surprising new study reveals that the first stars appeared in a pre-heated universe, challenging earlier ideas about early cosmic conditions.

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.