Astronomers have made the rare discovery of a small, cold exoplanet and its massive outer companion—shedding light on the formation of planets like Earth.

Massive neutron stars experience such enormous pressure in their cores neutrons residing there lose their integrity and become a new type of matter.

Compared to the mass of stars in their host galaxies, the black holes in early universe galaxies almost seem too big.

Highly populated areas such as New York City, Baltimore, Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Long Island are experiencing rapid subsidence, heightening risk to critical infrastructures like roads, flight paths, building foundations, railway lines and pipelines

Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument unveiled the cat's tail, a structure that could have originated as little as one hundred years ago.

Because astronauts have picked up hints of burnt meat, smoky rum and farts, here are your early links: Central Park Bow Bridge reopened, the illegal Chabad tunnel wasn't structurally sound, R.I.P Fruit Stripe gum and more.

Microsoft overtook Apple as the world's most valuable company on Thursday after the iPhone maker began 2024 with its worst start in years due to growing demand concerns.

By analyzing the data from various space telescopes, astronomers have performed a detailed study of an ultraluminous X-ray source known as NGC 2403 XMM4. Results of the study, published January 5 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society journa…

A team of environmental and natural scientists from Universidad EAFIT in Colombia, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and Boise State University in the U.S. has found evidence of an ancient petrified mangrove forest on an island in the Pan…

Researchers create a transparent graphene-based neural implant offering high-resolution brain activity data from the surface.

2024 is shaping up to be a very curious year. That's according to Edgar B. Herwick III, host of the GBH News podcast Curiosity Desk, who joins to give a pop ...

Astronomers finally have a direct link between the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole or a neutron star.

Participants can also create and download a virtual souvenir – a boarding pass to the VIPER mission featuring their name – to commemorate the experience.

Even as astronomical objects go, that's a gargantuan protostar.

An amateur space image processor spotted the dust storm near Olympus Mons.

The US will win the new moon race, NASA's Bill Nelson says.

The British astrophysicist looks at when Betelgeuse will blow, the ESA's Euclid telescope, and more astronomy news.

New research suggests that diamond rain may be possible on exoplanets. Scientists have speculated that inside ice giants, carbon compounds can be comp

Understanding Earth's cryosphere: NISAR's mission to decode the impact of global warmingNISAR, short for Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar, is designed to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2024 - When our Sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny pebbles of dust coalesced, like a snow

Will it wont it: Comet exploding every 15 days has stopped erupting

New research reveals that CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can unintentionally lead cancer cells to remove crucial genes, impacting cancer research and treatment strategies. A new study by Claudia Kutter’s research group at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and C…

In a significant breakthrough, Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have utilised artificial intelligence and supercomputing to discover a...

The brains of first-time mothers undergo significant changes in volume and thickness during late pregnancy and the early postpartum period, according to new research published in Nature Neuroscience.

As many as 5 asteroids are set to pass Earth by close margins in the next few days, NASA has revealed. One of them is a colossal 370-foot asteroid! Know their speed, size, distance of approach, and more.