Two massive continents are on a collision course, and the impact is coming sooner and faster than anyone predicted!

This galaxy formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's early years.

A record-breaking black hole 36 billion times the Sun’s mass hides in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy.

With just a splash of color, the red planet's horizons can look remarkably like our own – blue skies and all.

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found. The paper is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

This long-exposure image from the International Space Station shows the growing tension between celestial beauty and human expansion into space.

Obit: Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97

A fossil buried in a German museum’s storage for nearly 50 years has been reexamined, revealing a marine predator unlike anything known from its time.

It's wild to me that Beauty and the Beast was in theaters when scientists accepted the theory that a meteor killed the dinosaurs.

In space, no one can hear you scream — here's why.

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.

The ringed planet meets the moon for a striking skywatching event you won’t want to miss.

A next-generation collider is required for studying particle physics at the frontiers. Here's the fastest, cheapest way to get it done.

"This is a one-size-fits-all solution."

Long before their teeth evolved to handle tough, fibrous plants, early humans were already digging up and eating grasses, sedges, and starchy underground foods. A new fossil-tooth isotope study shows this behavior began about 700,000 years before longer molar…

The sturgeon moon was also a supermoon, meaning a full moon at the point in its elliptical orbit that's close to Earth.

The pacú Myloplus sauron, with flat teeth and a black stripe, has been discovered in the Amazon and named in honor of the “Eye of Sauron.”

Quantum simulations reveal quasicrystals are truly stable — ending a 40-year scientific debate.

The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the secrets of these mounds of halite.

The devastating flooding that swept through Texas Hill Country in early July, killing at least 135 people, unearthed a prehistoric discovery in Travis County on Monday, experts say.

A “mysterious giant” emerges – and it could shatter everything we know about black holes

Scientists have uncovered gigantic 117-million-year-old structures beneath the Atlantic Ocean, revealing a hidden chapter in Earth's geological history.

Researchers are developing a thorium-229 nuclear clock so sensitive it could detect the faint, wave-like effects of dark matter, potentially solving one of physics’ greatest mysteries.

Astronomers have spotted a colossal bridge of stars stretching across space, linking two galaxies in a breathtaking cosmic showdown.

Researchers in Austria have discovered how to effectively rewind time, a breakthrough that could forever change quantum computing.