Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

The US Government had concerns, including that the plan could disturb any human remains that may still be there.

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

A new application of laser technology known as two-way dual-comb ranging (TWDCR) has demonstrated with unprecedented ...

There’s another form of fossil evidence that has taught us about dinosaur sex: soft tissue fossils of their genitalia. Or, to ...

N early 162 years ago, a visionary predicted the evolution of machines and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) with ...

As the authors highlight, the failure rates of these methods vary widely, from two to 23 in every 100 women in the first year ...

At the center of almost every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. Well, astronomers think it’s every galaxy, but it ...

Karlstrom, Grant, and co-authors note that when magma erupts in dry conditions it usually turns to lava at the surface.

According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...

A ustralia might be home to a large proportion of the world’s deadliest animals but it's about to have three more. The iconic Sydney funnel-web spider, with one of the world’s deadliest bites, has ...