By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

This chemical signature or fingerprint doesn't show up in studies of other large impacts on Earth, or in any geological ...

Alfreðsson told RUV, Iceland’s national public broadcasting service, that the mosquitoes were the first ever spotted on ...

The celestial object is what scientists call a quasi-moon — an asteroid that orbits the sun but appears to move alongside ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

As a result, a large number of people across Madagascar are highly dependent on the island’s ecosystems for their livelihoods — for their survival — and those ecosystems are starting to fail, partly ...

For the first time, scientists may have found direct evidence of material from the proto-Earth, a version of our planet that ...

Feeling anxious about the impacts of climate change is normal, scientists say. But how common is anxiety so bad that it makes ...

Inside the search for the tiny particles that might be causing big problems for every human being on the planet.

Mosquitoes are found almost everywhere in the world, with the exception of Antarctica and, until very recently, Iceland, due ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...