The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Despite this, scientific understanding of how Antarctic marine life is responding to this unprecedented warming scenario is ...

NASA has announced when the longest total solar eclipse of the century will occur—and you won’t have to wait long. Here’s ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

A lost Maya city. A submerged temple in Italy. Remarkably well-preserved swords in a cave by the Dead Sea. These finds changed our perspective on history. Egyptian officials announced in May the ...

Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map ...