A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird,...
How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published...
Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form...
Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way...
Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent’s...
Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ever...
Black holes have been fascinating subjects of study, not just because they are cosmic vacuum cleaners, but also as engines...
An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA...
Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it’s true that...
More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter’s outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears...
