A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of the interstellar environment, and as far as these features go, the Helix Nebula is ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants.

During a special observation run from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS) repeatedly ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Zhu Junqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and dean of the newly established School of Space ...

In the course of his life, Galileo clashed with other philosophers and religious figures who were committed to the geocentric ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

When a solar storm strikes Earth, it can disrupt technology that's vital for our daily lives. Solar storms occur when ...

Behavior might be chalked up to more than just intentional choices.

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...