A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

But, when combined together, the two captures give us the most detailed image of the Pillars of Creation ... been writing for over a decade, covering science, gaming, and tech culture.

An international team of scientists, including Professor Patrick van der Wel from the University of Groningen, has combined computational modeling with experimental techniques to reveal the first ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing unprecedented 3D details of interstellar dust and gas. The space between stars is ...

The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet closest to our Sun. Nearby volcanic plains and the largest impact cater on Mercury–over 930 miles wide ...

Ice core analysis from Greenland reveals volcanic upheaval that coincides with the creation of mysterious "sunstones" in ...