Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Recent studies confirm Vasuki Indicus, a 47-million-year-old snake discovered in India, rivaled Titanoboa in size. Both ...

Titanoboa, as wide as an oil drum, crushed its prey with a powerful bite that had a muscle force of approximately 400 psi.

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The U.S. Space Force expects to soon award a second contract for its next batch of missile warning/missile tracking ...

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites were known to interfere with visible light astronomical observations, but many have now been ...