A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

NASA has discovered the ten oldest galaxies. These galaxies offer a glimpse into the early universe. GN-z11 is the oldest, ...

Gravity may not be a fundamental force of nature, but a byproduct of the universe streamlining information like a cosmic ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those missing pieces were going to be." ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

Science textbooks may be in for another revision. Our solar system shrank from nine planets to eight after the International ...

Although our universe is mostly normal matter, antimatter isn’t so hard to create — supernovae, black holes, and even bananas ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

Researchers in the US and Japan are racing to build new particle detectors that they hope will explain why the Universe ...

Everything we visualize about space, including stars, planets, gases, and even galaxies, make up just a small fraction of the ...