The formation of the first, or Population III, stars marked a pivotal epoch in cosmic history. Emerging in dark matter minihalos at redshifts of around 20–30, these metal-free objects arose from the ...

Discover 25 space anomalies that even NASA can't explain, from dark matter to the Great Attractor. Explore the universe's biggest mysteries. Learn more now ...

OpenAI and Oracle’s data center project in southern New Mexico will be powered by fuel cells rather than natural gas turbines and diesel generators, a move they say “dramatically reduces water use” ...

There’s a mystery surrounding the Solar System’s hottest planet. Just beneath Venus’s layer of acidic clouds lies a roughly 20-kilometre-thick haze. Researchers have long known about the haze — and ...

Venus, often called Earth's twin, is in fact a planet of extremes. Beneath its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere are crushing surface temperatures and dense clouds of sulfuric acid. While the planet's ...

Artist's impression of the simulations conducted in this research. Jupiter (lower left) has a strong magnetic field which creates a cavity in its circumplanetary disk. Saturn (upper right) lacks a ...

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A controversial data center development planned near New Mexico’s southern border has hit a roadblock in its plan to build a miles-long pipeline to bring natural gas to the facility. The State Land ...

One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by pulling in rocky and icy pebbles until they become massive enough to attract the gas that surrounds ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been born with a chemical head start, inheriting key organic ingredients at the very moment they began to take shape. Long before Europa’s hidden ocean or Ganymede’s deep ...

Interstellar visitor comet 3I/Atlas may have bid farewell to Earth, but spacecraft traveling through the solar system kept a close watch on the mysterious traveler. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...