Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking beneath Venus.

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates with teeth adapted for eating plants.

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes ...

The purchase comes after the university nixed plans to build the Discovery Partners Institute at The 78 in the South Loop.

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked intrigue in the scientific community after NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft detected ...

A US woman living with 4 generations of family goes viral, prompting Indians to joke that Americans “discovered” the ...

Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many ...