For the first time, astronomers have confirmed a star’s survival following a tidal disruption event with a supermassive black ...

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...

Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star closest to Earth, has finally been proven to have a companion star in observations from ...

A new study reveals how Doubling-Back Aversion leads people to reject smarter choices just to avoid undoing past progress.

With the arrival of summer, the Greenland Ice Sheet has adopted its ‘summer look,’ revealing a few odd shapes and other ...

The ESA's INVICTUS initiative has entered the race to develop potentially revolutionary reusable hypersonic flight technology ...

DARPA-funded scientists have demonstrated a concept that sounds like a science fiction horror movie, which they call "robot ...

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

This week, momentum is building around nuclear fusion, as tech investment and breakthroughs suggest it may arrive sooner than ...

A new brain imaging system, Connectome 2.0, is far outperforming traditional MRIs in imaging microscopic brain structure ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.

NASA has tasked a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist who studies extremophiles with figuring out what aliens ...