Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

A new documentary reveals the incredible results of a project to create 3D underwater scans of the doomed ocean liner RMS ...

The visible universe—including Earth, the sun, other stars, and galaxies—is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons bundled together into atoms. Perhaps one of the most surprising discoveries ...

These small vortices of darkness may have swirled to life soon after the universe formed with the big bang, some 13.7 billion years ago, and then quickly evaporated. Astronomers also suspect that ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... namely all the planets in the universe except the ones you already know about revolving around our sun.

Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow astronomers to peer farther into the universe and see the cosmos more clearly. Scientists began dreaming of such a telescope in the 1940s ...