Evidence that stone-age dentists were at work nearly seven millennia ago was discovered in Eastern Europe. A team ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected a strong bow shock while studying the ringed planet, revealing a massive acceleration of ...

A new German study has revealed changes in the patterns of atmospheric flow around the Northern hemisphere that ...

Images of U.K. crop circles from 1945 and earlier are evidence that these formations are not made by ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a huge storm engulfed Saturn and only ceased when it hit its own ...

New observations of a pulsar are challenging all existing theories about these stars' dynamics.

Australian researchers have encapsulated droplets of liquid metal with an insulative or semiconducting nano-coating, that could have applications ...

The supernova remnant W50 has been dubbed the Giant Manatee Nebula based on a new shot of the ...

Space-time may be more smooth than foamy, supporting Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

A long skinny filament of dust and gas has been found in our galaxy that astronomers refer to ...

Our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is being circled by about 30 smaller galaxies, half of which are in a ...

Supersonic geysers of charged particles have been discovered streaming from our galaxy's center that span about two-thirds of ...

The red worm, Lumbricus rubellus, can make nano-semiconductors called quantum dots when fed soil that contains metals like ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope has revealed huge streams of gas crossing a gap in the ...

New research has shown that globular clusters may contain varied distributions of blue straggler stars, suggesting they age ...

Tau Ceti, one of our closest sun-like stars, has a planetary system, including a world in the habitable ...

The number of matter particles or fermions contained in the standard model of particle physics has been confirmed ...

A microquasar or moderate-sized black hole consuming matter from a companion star has been found in our neighboring ...

A highly detailed study of the Nazca Lines in Peru has concluded they were used for ceremonial progressions, ...

Voyager 1 has arrived at the very edge of our solar system, and could break through to interstellar ...

NASA's Cassini has revealed another pattern that looks like Pac-Man on an icy Saturnian moon, this time Tethys.

A quasar with the largest ever outflow has been found using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

The Subaru Telescope has imaged an enormous gas giant planet or possibly tiny brown dwarf orbiting the bright ...

The mystery of why star-forming hydrogen gas is undetectable in the farthest regions of the universe may have ...

An object has been spotted near our solar system that is very likely a planet without a host ...

The strange behavior of stars in the Sword of Orion may be due to the presence of a ...

A U.K.-Australian research team is simulating knots in light with potential applications for a range of systems including ...