In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only ...

3I/ATLAS interstellar comet, first photographed from Mars orbit in October 2025, carries water ice with deuterium levels more than ten times higher than any solar system comet. The James Webb Space ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics recognizes Francis Halzen’s vision in building an unusual telescope in Antarctica, as well as ...

After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...

But the universe also hosts worlds that break away from this familiar image. Some planets drift alone through space without a central star, while others are so distorted by intense gravity that they ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth-like microbes could potentially survive conditions inside Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, ...

There might be alien life on a nearby moon, scientists say - Saturn’s companion Enceladus has long been a particularly ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus would theoretically be able to host some forms of microbial life, according to a scientific study ...

Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear peaceful. This is not universally ...

But, with careful planning, some telltale indicators of rainbows and other optical phenomena can be seen. To be clear, none ...

The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...