A transiting exoplanet has revealed a huge "spot" near the pole of its tiny M-dwarf parent star. The spot has been around at least 7 years and occupies 7% of the sun's surface.

A quiet Friday afternoon in central Myanmar was shattered on March 28, 2025, when a massive magnitude 7.7 earthquake tore through the region. The rupture followed the notorious Sagaing Fault, a strike ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth could have at least six minimoons that we never knew existed. A minimoon is a small ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

A startling photo from NASA has revealed something climate scientists didn't think was possible in one of the world's most ...

V1298 Tau b, as the planet is called, is a proto-sub-Neptune. With an estimated mass around times our planet, it is smaller than Neptune, which weighs over 17 Earths. The planet is extremely young, ...

A clip recorded in Myanmar in March reveals a curved path of the fault slip, which can help scientists better understand the ...

For over a hundred years, astronomers have puzzled over strange changes in the brightness and motion of Betelgeuse, the closest red supergiant to Earth. Located in the shoulder of Orion, this colossal ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, where researchers led by Stewart Jamieson from ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...