For decades, astronomers have believed that a supermassive black hole sits at the heart of our galaxy. This object, known as Sagittarius A*, is thought...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in Nature it came...

For more than half a century, scientists believed they had a solid grasp of Jupiter’s size and shape. As the largest planet in the solar...

Astronomers have spotted an unexpected and dramatic event in the early universe: a tightly packed collision involving at least five galaxies just 800 million...

Planets with two suns, like the famous desert world Tatooine from Star Wars, capture our imagination. Yet in real life, these so-called circumbinary planets—planets that...

In the very first moments after the Big Bang, the universe looked nothing like it does today. Instead of stars, atoms, or even protons, everything...

Scientists exploring Mars have uncovered strong new evidence that the Red Planet once had wave-washed beaches and long-lasting water activity, making it an even...

The chemical is known as thiepine, or 2,5-cyclohexadiene-1-thione (C₆H₆S), a ring-shaped sulfur-bearing hydrocarbon produced in biochemical reactions. When examining the molecular cloud G+0.693–0.027, a star-forming...

Scientists have created the most detailed map yet of dark matter—the mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe and quietly shapes everything...

Astronomers may have solved a long-standing mystery about how galaxies near the Milky Way move through space. New computer simulations suggest that our galaxy is...

When the rover now named Perseverance landed in Jezero crater in early 2021, scientists already knew they had picked an interesting place to scope...

Astronomers have discovered the largest sulfur-containing molecule ever seen in space, offering new clues about how the chemical ingredients of life may form long...

It is true that crewed missions to the Moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of...

Researchers from Curtin University have uncovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, rewriting what we know about Earth’s early history. This...

Our Earth is constantly battered by tiny pieces of space rock. Most of them burn up in the atmosphere, and these are called meteors. But when...

Last year, scientists discovered a huge burst of light in space that lasted for 50 seconds. They named it GRB211211A and thought it was caused...

A surprising discovery by Dutch scientists could offer new clues about how life began on Earth. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University...