Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined ... NASA/Wikimedia Exoplanetary systems generally host planets of the super-Earth type (between 1.2 and 3.5 times the ...

NARRATOR: And of all the worlds in our Solar System, ours hits the icy jackpot. The ice we have here on Earth is special ... delivering a mother lode of data. (camera shutter clicking) New ...

Outdoor security cameras offer peace of mind in a way that a safe, security system, or home defense shotgun can’t ... Some use batteries, while others charge from the sun with included solar panels.

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing ... the most local — tracking near-Earth asteroids in our own Solar System — to the largest, mapping ...

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has ... Now, if a solid earth grew by the addition of small particles from outside, these would be deposited in a layer on the surface ...

A complex form of carbon crucial for life on Earth has been spotted outside the solar system for the first time. Its presence ...

Snow fell on Hawaii's tallest peak this week, briefly turning the mountaintop into a winter wonderland. The summit area of Mauna Kea on the Big Island got about 2 inches of white powder.