Scientists have for the first time mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering violent winds and bizarre ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

Despite little to no daylight — plus months of frigid temperatures — people who live in northern Europe and above the Arctic Circle have learned how to cope mentally and physically with the annual ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a single asteroid hit Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs. The disaster ...

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science ...

"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving." ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, ...