Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have conducted a ...

KEY OBSERVATIONS The first alert came quietly. The data did not look wrong—just unfamiliar. What followed has forced ...

Beyond Neptune, a celestial object puzzles astronomers with its synchronized motion with the giant planet. Its inclined orbit challenges current models of the outer Solar System. Discovered by an ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that exist in nature, ...

Gravity causes matter to clump together, forming everything from stars to planets. Accretion disks form when material swirls around a central object due to conserved angular momentum. Magnetic fields ...

The New Horizons mission currently flying through the Kuiper Belt could be facing an unexpected change of plans. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is soliciting input on turning the spacecraft into a ...

Dr Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary scientist working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California (USA), and Dr Martin Jutzi, a physicist working at the Physics Institute of University of ...

In the vast, inky blackness beyond our solar system, objects are hurtling through space, each carrying secrets from another star. When one of these interstellar travellers, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first ...