Known as the oldest and deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal in Siberia is far from having revealed all its secrets. Last summer, scientists provided further proof of this, using a robot to probe the depths of the body of water. Lake Baikal, the pearl of Si…

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, and appears too big to explain.

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Kokoro Hosogi, an undergraduate student, contributed to a groundbreaking study published in Nature. 🔭 The research utilized observations from the XRISM telescope to explore the dynamics of intergalactic gas. 💫 Discovery revealed the Centaur…

Piece by piece, stage by stage, gonna get this rocket made.

Scientists have long questioned whether an early Earth could have contained the appropriate hydrogen and oxygen on its own to create the water on our planet.

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed Antikythera Mechanism and in so doing have found that manufacturing inaccuracies may have caused the device to jam so often it would h…

The amount of sunlight reaching Earth is changing—and air pollution might be to blame. How this could impact solar energy production in the coming decades.

Mission team members are investigating how the anomaly may affect plans to study another asteroid.

One of the first two modules that will form NASA's Gateway platform in orbit around the moon has arrived at its last stop before the launch site.

New three-dimensional (3D) models of objects in space have been released by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 3D models allow people to explore — and

Study finds more than half of such fossils are in private hands

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars. Located 120 light years away, the planet appears to take an unusual path around two brown dwarfs, whipping around at a right angle. Scientists know of …

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of Michigan research shows.

After six decades of uncertainty, scientists may have just solved one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Could neutron star mergers explain the most powerful particles in space?

When a husky named Miss Honey and her puppy arrived as strays at the Kentucky Humane Society, it was clear to shelter staff how devoted they were to each other. And when the puppy needed surgery, her mom was there every step of the way.

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms fall.

Over 5 million years ago, a catastrophic flood surged into the Mediterranean Sea, reshaping the entire region in just months. What caused this epic event, and how did it transform the landscape?

preliminary budget plan to NASA that proposes a 50% cut to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD)