Named 2020 VN40, this tiny body completes one orbit around the Sun for every ten Neptune makes.

Physics professor John Cramer, 90, volunteers for pioneering mitochondrial transplant therapy aimed at extending human lifespan beyond 122 years.

Earth has been spinning faster for the past few years — a trend that could lead the world’s timekeeping institutions to take unprecedented action.

"The chemistry in this location is really strange and exciting."

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 Chinese scientists have developed a technology to convert lunar soil into fuel and oxygen, aiding space exploration. 🌕 The technology uses a photothermal strategy to extract water from lunar soil and transform CO2 into usable resources. 🔍 C…

Eight launches are scheduled for this week. Four of these are Falcon 9s, with SpaceX…

Switching to green energy? This museum accidentally found a dinosaur instead.

A record-breaking 17.6-meter rogue wave off British Columbia highlights the importance of wind dynamics in wave formation

The southern part of the earthquake’s rupture moved at speeds of over 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per second.

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further mathematical scrutiny is warranted.

The cycle of birth and death in the universe has been illustrated by twin discoveries of an infant world taking shape and a hidden star that is doomed to die

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the dramatic explosion of a particular kind of white dwarf. In 1998, they announced their surprising results: Instead of slowing down or stayin…

Scientists have uncovered shocking evidence that India's tectonic plates are literally splitting apart.

Weird makos filmed off the California coast in a new Shark Week show raise questions about what these sharks actually are.

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet orbiting a nearby star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2431 b, is comparable in size to Earth and has a very short orbital peri…

A diver filmed the strange marine creature during a research trip on the southern Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

You may see as many as 100 meteors per hour if you're in a place where it's dark enough.

 The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.

It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.

When astronauts return from the International Space Station, many have noticed an unexpected side effect of their mission, their eyesight has changed.

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A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth’s ancient past often reads like a mystery novel, and a recent study publ…