This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

Exotic properties suggested by recent DESI collaboration data are more likely to apply to dark energy than dark matter, ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

From soft actuators that mimic real muscle to DNA drives that can store petabytes in a sugar cube, humanity is engineering ...

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think ...

Are living beings hiding on distant planets, waiting to be found? That question has captured the minds of scientists and ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

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this new population would effectively break all of our current models of galaxy numbers and evolution. Scientists emphasize that half of cosmic activity can be missed if observations are limited to ...