Exciting new research suggests there are four miniature planets orbiting Barnard's Star, each thought to be just 20 to 30% the mass of Earth.
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests.
Around 1,645 light-years from Earth sits a binary star system, containing a white dwarf and a red dwarf on such a close orbit that each revolution smacks their magnetic fields together, producing a burst of radio waves.
A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France has observed 128 additional moons orbiting the gas giant Saturn, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 274.
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.
Cyborg cockroaches are creeping onto the scene as a surprising alternative for challenging tasks in risky locations.
The continued release of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere could increase the longevity of space junk in low Earth orbit, a new paper reveals.
The nickname “old continent” has never been more appropriate for Europe, which doesn’t seem to show any sign of recovery from the demographic crisis of recent years. The European birth rate is reaching new lows every year.
The battery uses solar power generated by crystals that emit light when they absorb radiation.
A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced.
The density of chain grocery stores has increased globally by 23.6 percent over 15 years (from 2009 to 2023). People in countries with the most chain grocery stores per person buy more unhealthy food and are more likely to be obese.
A galaxy called GLIMPSE-16403, is by no means confirmed as a Population III host. But the identification of even a candidate suggests that it's only a matter of time before we finally locate the first stars in the Universe.
To lay the foundations for a lunar navigation system, NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) has successfully received global positioning system (GPS) signals beamed from Earth's orbit.
Researchers say the 3.47-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater could help explain how life on Earth began.
In 1982, the Syrian government besieged the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in sectarian violence.The grandchildren of women who were pregnant during the siege still bear marks of it in their genomes.
