The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first signs of "spoke season", the appearance of mysterious spokes — or in this case blobs — in Saturn's rings. So what causes them?

The James Webb Space Telescope just peered into a celestial Pandora's box to see what lies beyond a megacluster of galaxies.

Sketches found inside Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks, show that he had already grasped the essence of Einstein’s 1907 ‘Equivalence Principle’ centuries before the physicist.

Astronomers have revealed the latest deep-field image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora's Cluster (Abell 2744). Webb's view displays three clusters of galaxies—already m…

Astronomers have detected a radio glow caused by shockwaves in the gigantic filaments between galaxy clusters in the ‘cosmic web’ which pervades the Universe.

The space rock landed in a field in 1902, but was lifted to London - now it's back and on display.

Indeed, over half of all massive stars belong to at least a binary pair, and many of them belong to triple or quadruple star systems.

In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, and colleagu…

It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in Europe. This is shown by…

A 'perfect' explosion that formed a symmetrical ball has baffled scientists who say it 'makes no sense.' The explosion was caused by two giant stars colliding on the same orbit 140 million light years away.

In its latest post, the space station shared a set of stunning images showcasing two orbital sunrises from opposite sides of the world on the same day.

Scientists are not yet clear on how the tau protein changes from a benign protein essential for normal function in our brains into the toxic neurofibrillary tangles that are a signature of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

No one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor of February 15, 2013 coming—the largest asteroid to strike Earth in over a century. Just after sunrise on a sunny winter's day, a 20-meter, 13,000-ton asteroid struck the atmosphere over the Ural Mountains in Russia at a spee…

The space rock landed in a field in 1902, but was lifted to London - now it's back and on display.

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The largest penguin ever discovered boasted the girth of a Super Bowl linebacker! Source: The 350-Pound Penguin That Once Roamed Planet Earth

Both clubs were removed from the Premiership this season having been placed into administration.

Before Galileo, Newton and Einstein, it seems to be Leonardo da Vinci who started piecing together the gravity puzzle.

The nation wants more time to investigate a leak that popped up on a Progress cargo spacecraft.

Underdog narratives are a tried-and-true leadership tactic designed to motivate teams and organizations. Leaders across industries, from telecommunications to sports, love to craft a come-from-behind image to ignite those inspirational hard-scrabble stories w…

A team of international researchers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star K2-415. K2-415b is located 72 light-years away from the blue marble.

Today, species richness peaks in equatorial regions but until now there has been no clear explanation for this.

Researchers have produced new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy.

Scientists recently named a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole. This unique feature will now be referred to as “Mons Mouton,” after NASA mathematician and computer programmer Melba Roy Mouton

To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.

Using two powerful radar-based ground installations, a joint team of scientist from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the Green Bank Observatory (GBO), and Raytheon Intelligence &...