New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

I/ATLAS, only the third object from beyond our solar system ever spotted from Earth, was viewed from Mars by an orbiting European spacecraft.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

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Astronomers detected a gigantic wave pattern in a large portion of the Milky Way galaxy by analyzing data from young stars.

New research suggests that technological civilizations in the Milky Way are extremely rare, with the closest potentially ...

When earth and sky meet the result is electric as this photo taken at Salmon Creek Beach shows. Bioluminescent plankton, which emit light through a chemical reaction, cast a blue glow underneath a ...