Scientists suggest that dry ice on Mars may move and burrow beneath the surface, creating patterns similar to sandworms from Dune and shedding light on the planet’s changing landscape.

That idea thrilled scientists because it meant Mars might once have supported life. But newer space images have revealed that ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

For years, scientists believed carbon dioxide ice might play a role in shaping Mars’ surface. However, no one had ever ...

"The CO2 ice block began to dig into the slope and move downwards just like a burrowing mole or the sandworms from 'Dune.' It ...

In an interview with the BBC, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of ...

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

Tucked away in Palm Springs, the Moorten Botanical Garden is what happens when someone decides that regular gardens are too boring and creates something that belongs on the surface of a distant, ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...