The image offers a rare look at how Earth's surface and atmosphere interact after sunset.

Jupiter's icy Moon is one of the most promising places to search for life in the solar system.

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential uses in biotechnology and medicine.

This 3,500-year-old covered wagon is the best-preserved example in the world of this ancient form of wheeled transport.

Here are the best lunar events to see in 2026, including eclipses, supermoons and conjunctions.

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest scale. It would precede the field of nanotechnology by decades.

Indian astronomers discover 'Alaknanda', an ancient spiral galaxy, using the James Webb Space Telescope, challenging current galaxy formation models.

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life.

A Falcon 9 rocket launch and landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base has been delayed a second day in a row. "To allow more time to perform ground system

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A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China gave paleontologists a huge surprise.

Modern winter jackets are a testament to centuries-old physics and cutting-edge materials science.

For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 cal BP) people of the Sierras de Córdoba were scarce. However, Dr. Matías Medina and his colleagues, Sebastián Pastor and Gisela Sario, …

By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected the outflow of a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1266. Results of the new study, presented Dec. 11 on the arXiv pre-prin…

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Its existence challenges what we know about planetary activity in the absence of tectonic plates.

Three galaxies are colliding, and all of them are hiding something powerful at their core. This isn’t just rare. It’s unheard of.

Older than the dinosaurs, this fossil has been hiding an extraordinary secret beneath its surface. Researchers never expected to see what they saw.

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our solar system. Their work, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, used NASA's JWST to reveal an alien atmosphere in an unexpected …

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the day and rise at night to feed, linking deep and surface food …

NASA's Voyager probes have uncovered a searing-hot mystery at the edge of our solar system—a vast, invisible barrier hotter than most stars.

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.

The push-up is a staple bodyweight exercise – but is it useful for building muscle? Here's how many push-ups reps it takes to build mass and achieve your goals.

Cracks are continuing to grow at an alarming rate.