A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured with fabricated Dark Energy Camera - one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world.
Spruce trees anticipated a solar eclipse by syncing their signals. Older trees responded first. Forests may behave as one living system.
Whatever caused the blackout in Spain and Portugal, it highlights the vulnerabilities in some electricity grids.
Eos is a crescent-shaped molecular cloud about 300 light-years from our solar system. It resides on the edge of the Local Bubble, a huge “cavity” in space filled with gas, which is about 1,000 light-years across.
Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as the crust.
Scientists have long been trying to determine how elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum, were first created and scattered through the Universe, and new research may give us another part of the answer: magnetars.
An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets after the right conditions arise in general.
Lengthening days are linked to the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere, according to a study from 2021.
Physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could be evidence that reality is a computer simulation.
A US teenager was recently reported to have developed the oddly named medical condition "popcorn lung" after vaping in secret for three years.
The largest known structure in the Universe may be even larger than the large we thought it was.
A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time.
After over three decades of scrutinising our Universe, Hubble remains a household word as the most well-recognised telescope in scientific history.
From 1 January 2023 to 20 April 2025, bleaching-level heat stress has impacted 83.7% of the world’s coral reef area.
New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas.
