Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five ...

A fresh analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has offered an unexpected look at how our galaxy ...

Astronomers have flagged a distant stellar object so extreme that, on paper, it should not exist. Its mass, brightness and ...

Little by little (or perhaps not so little by little), science is answering questions and solving mysteries about the universe, at least as far as we know. It ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...

China’s Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Just Released Its First Results—And They’re Promising ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Sussex’s Nobel connections, however, extend beyond Sir Harry Kroto. Other Sussex-linked scientists, such as Anthony Leggett, studied at Sussex before winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has, for the first time, obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...