The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

The heat mapping of metros like Reno, Nevada, could be key to taming urban heat, saving lives and designing for a cooler ...

The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 ...

Called SPHEREx, the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust ...

Found at the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities ...

Likely removed by Nazi researchers, the scrap of fabric is a small but crucial part of the tattered tapestry's nearly ...

A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...

Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...

Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...

The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish ...