Earth's shadow follows the planet as it orbits the sun. You can get a sense of its enormous, awe-inspiring size by seeing ...

A new study suggests that some dogs don’t need direct training to learn new words—they can pick them up simply by listening ...

A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

A 140-foot space rock, Asteroid 2007 EG, will pass relatively close to Earth soon. Scientists say it’s harmless, yet they’re watching carefully. Why does this flyby matter for future asteroid defence?

A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Debris flying immediately after DART collided with Dimorphos. (NASA DART team and LICIACube) In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...

Witnesses described an intensely bright object racing across the sky from the southwest to the northeast, leaving behind a glowing trail before breaking apart.