Giant impacts on Earth's surface can be cataclysmic events with far-reaching consequences. They can excavate massive craters like the Vredefort Crater. There's also growing evidence...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly...

For decades, scientists have debated whether the Moon once had a powerful magnetic field like Earth’s or only a weak one. Now, a new study...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed view ever of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing a tangled web of cold gas filaments...

When the venerable Hubble Space Telescope made its Deep Fields studies of the early Universe, it discovered something that would puzzle astronomers to this...

Scientists have discovered that the colorful light shows seen above Earth’s poles also occur on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon—and they behave in strikingly similar...

Astronomers have captured the first clear image of a giant “bubble” surrounding a young star that closely resembles what our own sun looked like...

Scientists have found new evidence that Jupiter’s largest moons may have received the chemical building blocks of life at the moment they formed. The discovery...

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky Way for signs of advanced alien civilizations. They...

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, yet no one...

Astronomers have uncovered a mysterious group of distant galaxies that may fill an important gap in our understanding of how galaxies grow and change...

In a new study, researchers found incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought. The research was conducted by researchers from Johns...

In a new study, researchers found carbon monoxide detectors may help find simple life forms on other planets. This finding is different from scientists’ previous...

For years, astronomers have looked up at the sky and speculated about the strange dimming behavior of Tabby's Star. First identified more than a century...

Pops of bright blue and green in this image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) show the locations of extremely bright sources of X-ray...

If you want to pinpoint your place in the Universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks...