Galaxies dating back to the Epoch of Reionization show abundant signs of young stars.
New evidence from a cave in South Africa suggests Homo naledi , a distant human ancestor, was more complex than previously thought.
Cocoons of debris surrounding collapsing stars may generate gravitational waves detectable by LIGO.
A barred spiral galaxy 17 million light-years from Earth is the latest target of NASA’s most perceptive observatory.
Now 20 years since its launch, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has a new Martian map.
New troves of fish bones in eastern Beringia point to the early origins of freshwater fishing among some of the earliest North Americans.
Light-years-long filaments perpendicular to those previously discovered are sprouting from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.
Mission controllers spent nearly a full week in the attempt to regain contact with the rotorcraft, the result of a challenging Martian landscape.
Three exoplanets were hidden away in 2018 Kepler Space Telescope data, until now.
The $10 billion space observatory is investigating ancient light as well as nearby moons.
4,000-year-old remains in Somerset and Cumbria carried the bacteria that causes plague.
What if we’ve been looking for worlds like ours in the wrong places?
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration will restart with renewed sensitivity this week following a three-year hiatus.
The latest dark matter experiment kicks off this week, as physicists aim to identify the universe's most enigmatic particles.
Star clusters, galaxies, and gas clouds are mesmerizing when seen across many wavelengths of light.
The Apple TV+ show explores the Cretaceous world through the lens of a nature documentary.
These so-called Lazarus species often evade our notice.
Makeshift mammoths and body-double dodos are on the way—but they won't be the genuine article.
A massive outburst rocked the cosmos nearly 8 billion years ago, but we're only just observing it.
The river was once one of many waterways that fed into a lake in the now-dry Jezero Crater.
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