The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

Located in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), these filaments could be a part of a cyclical process in one of the galaxy’s ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

The ocean is teeming with life. But unless you get up close, much of the marine world can easily remain unseen. That's ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the ...

World War II saw some truly amazing innovations and feats of engineering. Actually, there were several pieces of equipment ...

What if black holes weren’t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic ...