Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

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A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been home to life — namely, that it was a wet planet. This is in line with ...

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

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The idea of a doomsday vault hidden on a remote Norwegian Arctic island might sound like something from the latest ... Heartbreaking new images show a 'bumpy' giraffe covered with hundreds of ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

This photograph of a Soyuz rocket bathed in mist was selected as a finalist for the Sony World Photography Awards 2025 ...