Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...
Astronomers knew 3I/ATLAS wasn’t a local comet not long after first spotting it in July 2025. As only the third interstellar ...
A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...
Deep inside planets like Uranus and Neptune, scientists may have uncovered a bizarre new state of matter where atoms behave ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has now reached a major turning point, with NASA confirming that its final assembly is ...
Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...
The Mars Moons eXploration spacecraft will fire its thrusters to maneuver into orbit around Mars (depicted in this digital ...
Astronomy enthusiasts can anticipate a spectacular planetary alignment featuring Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune from April ...
As science fiction enthusiast and a scientist, I am excited to see what it will be like. I’m sure I’m not alone, as a number ...
When UW professor David Catling from the department of Earth and space sciences (ESS) was named a 2026 geochemistry fellow, ...
Photo: Courtesy of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Chinese scientists have identified two previously unknown lunar ...
Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...