It is the brightest point in a constellation first described 2,000 years ago and was the first distant star captured in a ...

Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.

Keep your eyes on the sky this upcoming year for a chance to spot breathtaking meteor showers, a special view of Saturn and a ...

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham found the huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

White dwarfs are cores of stars that were once like our sun but that have ... white dwarfs' motions relative to Earth and grouping them according to their gravity and size, the team isolated ...

“Scientists estimate that we’ve identified only one-tenth of all species on Earth,” said Dr. Shannon ... unknown species that may be just as important to the functioning of an ecosystem ...

The task at hand is to demonstrate the feasibility of harnessing nuclear fusion - the same reaction powering our Sun and stars - at ... Meanwhile, here on Earth, two main methods are being ...

Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer drones with explosives — bringing a brutal new form of ...

Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize ...