The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements...
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The birth, growth and future of our universe are eternally fascinating.
Have you ever found something unexpected in the background of a photo? Scientists looking at images of...
It only took Ed Albin a few steps on Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto...
Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we...
Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary...
More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern U.S. states have now reported witnessing a mysterious object...
When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose...
What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel,...
What processes during the formation of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and...
Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have...
Population III (PopIII) stars represent astronomy’s ultimate prize: the first generation of stars born from the pristine...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing...
Reports of a fireball falling over the southeastern U.S. flooded social media Thursday afternoon, and the National...
Japan’s rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country’s western regions, meteorologists said...
Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a “mini halo”—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy...
After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a...
We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying...
At this year’s Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the...