Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

Astronomical discovery: supersonic gales of 20,500 mph batter the exoplanet WASP-127b, breaking cosmic records for ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

No, you aren't imagining it. NASA has confirmed that the days are indeed getting shorter, as our planet spins faster than ever before.