A tiny slowdown in Earth’s rotation next year could trigger more earthquakes than usual, new research suggests.
A star-forming galaxy 12.8 billion light-years away offers insight into the early days of our universe after the Big Bang roughly 13.7 billion years ago.
Astronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through the solar system on a steep trajectory from interstellar space—the first confirmed object from another star.
Life on our planet might have originated from biological particles brought to Earth in streams of space dust, a study suggests.
The ancient art of origami has inspired designs for numerous pieces of hardware on NASA missions, allowing scientists to pack more technology into smaller space-bound packages.
The beginning of modern humans could be a far more complex, spread out thing than we ever thought before
This map of the universe spans more than 500 million light-years and contains more than 100,000 galaxies.
Are you there, aliens? It’s us, Earth. Astronomers have sent a radio message to a neighbouring star system – one of the closest known to contain a potentially habitable planet – and it’s nearby enough that we could receive a reply in less than 25 years.
UFO sightings visualization competition held by data crunchers
For the first time, engineers at Caltech have created a stable ring of plasma in open air—essentially capturing lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle.
