Debris is a growing threat to orbital infrastructure, and it’s only going to get worse as the number of launches increases ...

Earth is flying through the radioactive ashes of an ancient exploded star, and Antarctic ice preserved the evidence.

The famous line from Macbeth, chanted by spell-casting witches, is often misremembered as “Bubble, bubble toil and trouble.” ...

The contemporary pearl jewelry designer goes haute, by combining pearls with onyx, diamonds and chalcedony to striking effect ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the "cosmic web" of galaxies, the largest structure in the ...

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in ...

Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the early stages of ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

Antarctic ice contains evidence that Earth entered an interstellar dust cloud more than 40,000 years ago 1. As the Solar ...

"We found out that both Uranus and Neptune have their outer shells made mostly of rocks (and hydrogen and helium gas)," study ...