MIT researchers have developed a groundbreaking asteroid-detection technique that could be crucial in protecting Earth’s space infrastructure from the growing threat of smaller asteroids.

"This milestone essentially marks the birth of our flight system."

46 million years ago, an asteroid struck beneath the North Sea, causing a massive tsunami. New findings reveal the incredible details.

For 170 years, one crucial part of Arthropleura stayed hidden. Now, scans inside a fossil from France have exposed details that change what this giant prehistoric arthropod really looked like.

A distant supernova appears multiple times in the sky after its light bends through a galaxy. The strange effect may reveal clues about dark energy.

China has zeroed in on a volcanic region that could host its first astronauts on the Moon, and researchers say the site holds far more than a safe landing zone.

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1,140 Canon 400mm telephoto lenses will search the sky for evidence of dark matter.

The night sky is full of wonder. Here's what to look out for tonight.

When producer Berly McCoy was out on her local frozen lake, she saw something she'd never seen before. There were dark spidery, star-shaped patterns in the ice and they freaked her out. So, we called an expert to find out more about them. In today’s episode, …

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have uncovered three key discoveries about how unstable atomic nuclei …

Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a hominid species called Australopithecus afarensis.

Our view of the cosmos changes completely based on how we observe it.

Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce to ev…

Imagine catching a single raindrop and realising it fell from a storm on the other side of the Universe.

Centaur-style wearable robot adds two legs behind humans, cutting walking effort by 35% while carrying heavy loads.

New research based on decades of satellite observations reveals an unexpected atmospheric connection: mineral dust from distant deserts can trigger the freezing of clouds in the Northern Hemisphere.

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

"You can tell he had done this before, like, many times."

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Rocky planets are found in abundance around M-type stars (red dwarfs), so finding another one doesn't always generate headlines. But an international team of astronomers say that one recent M-dwarf rocky planet found by TESS is especially noteworthy. This one…

'Starfleet Academy''s principal mixes new ideas with inspiration from her famous predecessors

Orbital instruments studying Mars have picked up unusual chemical signatures that don’t match any known mineral. Scientists are now investigating what could be hiding behind these puzzling signals.

A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum entanglement.

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the