There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

Kiwi startup OpenStar's bold move to use levitating dipole reactor for fusion achieved a key milestone with its first plasma.

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

We're getting a look at some of the first footage from Disney+/Hulu's 2025 slate, including season 4 of The Bear, Andor ...

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Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest ...