These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...

NASA has issued an alert for a 100-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth tomorrow. Should you be concerned? Let's dive in and ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...

Scintillation measurements show that FRB 20221022A originated from the highly magnetized region around a neutron star, challenging existing models of conditions there ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.