A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova."

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how the outer solar system formed and evolved.

Researchers in Sweden recovered RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, allowing them to identify which genes were active in its tissues before extinction.

Researchers suggest a sea change in satellite design to protect the ozone layer.

Many researchers have spent decades attempting to decode biblical descriptions and link them to verifiable historical events. One such description is that of the Star of Bethlehem—a bright astronomical body that was said to lead the Magi to Jesus shortly afte…

2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse.

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore...

As we summarize 2025 and approach a New Year, the time is ripe to recognize the most significant dating partner that humanity had in 2025…

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…

Time to stop monkeying around — just don't go bananas if you get the wrong answer!

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.