Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany) Ph.D. student ...

WASP-94A b, a hot Jupiter nearly 700 light-years away, builds mineral cloud cover each morning and loses it by evening. This ...

Deep beneath the South Pacific, scientists have confirmed the existence of a massive landmass that has been debated for ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft flew past Mars on its way to a strange metal-rich world that may reveal secrets about Earth’s ancient planetary formation past.

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, ...

The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than ...

Bermuda’s volcanic rocks may reveal a hidden water-rich layer deep inside Earth, reshaping ideas about mantle structure and ...

There are parts of the universe, and of the electromagnetic spectrum, that we’re not covering with our telescopes—but not as ...

Hidden geology beneath the United States may intensify solar storm damage to the power grid, according to the USMTArray ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...