Venus’ atmosphere bears no signs of microbes eating or pooping, suggesting that the odd chemical composition of...
Science & Astronomy
The fastest-growing black hole ever seen is swallowing the mass equivalent of an entire Earth every second. ...
An unusual blue-tinged asteroid likely got its trademark color from intense sunlight, new research finds, solving a...
One look at this stunning new image and you’re likely to repeat the immortal words of “2001:...
While examining a stellar nursery, astronomers found something peculiar: a binary star system that may have formed...
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins took this photo of the moon from the International Space Station and posted...
Astronomers have developed a new model for simulating how clusters of baby stars form and evolve, helping...
There’s trash in the deepest ocean depths, at some 35,700 feet beneath the surface. There’s also trash...
The galaxy-mapping mission Gaia has detected thousands of stellar earthquakes that might provide new insights into the...
Europe’s galaxy-mapping Gaia mission recorded the sound of starquakes that ripple through stellar surfaces like tsunamis...