Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new stars. These swirling clouds—called protoplanetary discs—are the ...

Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new stars. These swirling clouds—called protoplanetary discs—are the birthplaces ...

For over a hundred years, astronomers have puzzled over strange changes in the brightness and motion of Betelgeuse, the closest red supergiant to Earth. Located in the shoulder of Orion, this colossal ...

Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that has persisted for millennia.

He calculated the Earth was much older than the Bible predicted and ... Buffon idolised Isaac Newton and learned his calculus. He solved an ancient mystery about a weapon invented by Archimedes, which ...

The book outlines the rivalry between Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc due to their differing intellectual approaches ...

Astronomers have used the NASA and U.S. National Science Foundation-funded “Alopeke instrument on Gemini North,” one half of ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To ...

Scientists break down the reasons why days are getting shorter—and the mystery they're still trying to solve about Earth's core.

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future.

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...