What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

The small, icy visitor now racing away from the inner solar system is not just another comet. It is an interstellar object, ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

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An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Illustration: Brian Engh From a small ...

Take a good look at the Golden Age of Detroit, before the Malaise of the seventies. Then point out one – just one! – single motor that would define that era. If you said the “426 Hemi,” you’d probably ...

A recent groundbreaking discovery by China’s Chang’e-6 mission has unveiled a surprising find on the far side of the Moon, offering a unique glimpse into the Moon’s ancient past. According to a new ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

At 4:56 a.m. EST (0956 GMT) on Feb. 17, the moon will begin to turn the sun into an impressive "ring of fire" during an ...

Prime Video is adding to its adult animation roster with a series from Solar Opposites alumni Mike McMahan and Dominic ...