A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Secondary gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere created when primary gravity waves, like those triggered by a volcanic ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

New research shows the blast triggered secondary gravity waves that rattled the upper atmosphere, where satellites orbit.

Digestive gas gets the best of everyone sooner or later, often in the form of a burp. Burping is how the body clears excess ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Secondary gravity waves emerge as the hidden architects of global-scale thermospheric upheaval following the Tonga eruption in 2022.

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...