SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Earlier this year, Disney announced it would bring the original Star Wars film, later dubbed Episode IV: A New Hope, back to ...

Yellowstone has erupted three times in the past 2.1 million years, and each event buried large portions of North America ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

Music doesn't always arrive in grand gestures; sometimes it comes in the form of a lived-in single from a reliable local band ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Hidden in the golden sands of the Sahara Desert lies a geological marvel that has captured the attention of astronauts and scientists alike. Known as the “Eye of the Sahara,” this natural formation, ...