A peculiar black fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, is not only surviving but flourishing in the highly radioactive ruins of Chernobyl's Unit Four reactor.

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Every so often, astronomers stumble on a star that seems to ignore the rulebook, forcing them to rethink how the cosmos is ...

As my kids grew up, I feared losing them. But by embracing their music, hobbies, and passions, I found new ways to connect ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...

Have you found yourself standing next to your cousin’s new partner, a person whose only hobby is competitive cheese rolling, ...

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...