The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

Indeed, other planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system do have seasonal cycles — and they can look wildly different from the ones we experience on Earth, experts told Live Science.

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting ... in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time that carbon-based molecules ...

From South Korea's STSAT-1 satellite, which carries the FIMS-SPEAR spectrograph, they identified a far-ultraviolet glow given off by hydrogen molecules in the cloud.This is the first time a ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

These molecules, typically produced by life on Earth, offer the strongest evidence yet of possible life beyond our solar system.

and stellar radiation it ejects across the solar system. These solar storms routinely produce colorful atmospheric auroras on Earth, but especially intense events can wreak havoc on satellites and ...

UCF scientists and collaborators analyzed far-away bodies — known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) — and found varying ...