Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

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Astronomers have confirmed that three Earth-sized planets are orbiting two stars in the same system — a first in the history ...

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An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away - ...

The last supermoon of the year will soon shine in December skies. When a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, a ...

Eight "skylights" may be entrances to underground spaces where evidence of ancient microbial organisms could be found.

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

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

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...