This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

The northern lights might be visible over Illinois Monday night. Here's how residents can catch a glimpse and take a photo ...

Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Scientists discover the largest-known rotating cosmic filament, a 50M light-year structure of galaxies, gas and dark matter spinning in space.

Hiking trails like the Navajo Loop and Queen's Garden provide breathtaking views of Bryce's famous hoodoos.

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

The University of Michigan has been announced as one of two American institutions helping with the design and construction of ...

Taken together, these studies illustrate that the Milky Way’s spiral arms are not just smooth arcs of stars, but dynamic, ...

Scientists have found an "extreme" solution to the mysterious origins of critical life-supporting elements chlorine and potassium.

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...