Spanning more than 650 light-years, this radio view reveals the structure of our Milky Way's mysterious Central Molecular Zone.

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first vertical view of Uranus's upper atmosphere, delivering an unprecedented look at the planet's ionosphere and auroral structures. The new ...

Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global ...

The James Webb Space Telescope delivers the 1st detailed 3D map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing dramatic temperature ...

Unlike a solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, people watching Tuesday morning’s lunar eclipse don’t have to worry about damaging their eyes. Binoculars will ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between ...

From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins ...

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...