A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world.

Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to generate its own ...

Somewhere between 50 and 200 million years ago, in three stellar nurseries not far from our corner of the Milky Way, at least ...

We’ve never seen a member of this class of signals behave like this, but there is a surprising parallel within our own Solar ...

Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago.

A collaborative study with the University of Cologne, recently published in Nature Communications, provides compelling ...

Supermassive black holes are the largest known black holes in the universe, sitting at the center of most large galaxies. They are sometimes described as cosmic monsters because they feed on ...

New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war, and the ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...