Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that high-pressure reactions between ...
The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...
On this week’s episode of our YouTube exclusive show Space Beat, host Rob Landers and space team reporter Eric Lagatta ...
Currently presenting a faint magnitude of 14.7, Comet 3I/ATLAS is so distant that its light requires nearly 19 minutes to ...
A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.
The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...
The Smithsonian is one of the world’s foremost research centers in science, the arts, and the humanities. In addition to ...