A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of a mysterious new planet beyond Neptune, shaking up our understanding of the outer reaches ...

Stretching some 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest rifts in the world, and a new study may have ...

The Tianwen-2 probe was transported to the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on May 14, where it is undergoing final ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Using radar data from a NASA mission launched more than three decades ago, scientists have found fresh clues suggesting that ...

This illustration, taken from an animation produced for the European Southern Observatory, shows a binary star system. Credit ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

It happened 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was full of orbiting space rocks. This debris clumped up in a ...

A stunning new image sent back from the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the ...