Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

The curious minds at What If explain how the largest black hole in the universe could tear apart our entire solar system.

Nasa’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will loop around Jupiter on a course that will carry it by Europa 49 times over four years ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it’s an extremophile in a hot spring or ...