"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...

Alien species are giving freshwater ecosystems in Africa and beyond a mauling. But a new project, backed by funding from one of the continent’s premier prizes for young researchers, holds hope.

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms of the Milky Way over more than 4 billion years, according to new research.

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Physicists have tried so many different ways to find dark matter, but none have been successful. Now an unexpected contender ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

A new study has uncovered how tiny differences in boron atoms can help scientists better predict the long-term behavior of ...