This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

Webb telescope observations hint that a scorching rocky exoplanet may hold a thick atmosphere above molten rock, defying ...

Tucked away in Northern California’s Redwood National and State Parks near the humble town of Orick, this 10-mile stretch of asphalt delivers the kind of jaw-dropping, soul-stirring experience that ...

A skydiver leaping into the void with the Sun at their back, a sloth clinging to a barbed-wire fence, a microscopic tattoo on ...

Gold Bluffs Beach Campground, a short detour from the parkway, provides the rare opportunity to camp with ancient redwoods on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other – a juxtaposition of ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) spacecraft has delivered an "unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest ...

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles of our planet on Friday. That's as ...