A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

The eta Aquariids are just the first of two meteor showers that we see each year from Halley's Comet. Most comets tend to ...

The snapshot above showcases NGC 1514, a planetary nebula that resides roughly 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation ... is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

The search for Earth-like exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—is a central topic in today's planetary research, because extraterrestrial life is most likely to be found there.

Welcome back to Earth, Wind and Fire, the Santa Fe New Mexican’s weekly environment newsletter. Last week, we marked the 55th anniversary of Earth Day.

“The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half the planet. Jupiter’s diameter is 11 times larger than Earth ...

But less than 4% of all the meteorites found on Earth are carbonaceous. So why is there such a mismatch? In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy on April 14, 2025, my planetary ...

Labor leaders, green energy groups, fishermen and marine life protectionists marked Earth Day with a rally urging the federal government to reverse its stop-work order for Empire Wind. Over 100 ...