Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

Discover James Webb discoveries revealing the JWST early universe, cosmic dawn insights, and groundbreaking new space ...

The cosmos continues to unravel secrets that leave scientists – and the rest of us – in awe. From mysterious dark matter and alien worlds to deep space phenomena that challenge the laws of physics, ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot. Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that stretch across the known universe ...

Can planets form and evolve within a protoplanetary disk—a region of gas and dust orbiting young stars—that is exposed to deadly ultraviolet radiation that would typically result in irradicating life ...

A landmark discovery on an ancient branch of the River Nile may have solved the mystery of how the pyramids in Egypt were ...

Discovery of seven-ring cyanocoronene in a star-forming cloud challenges assumptions about the abundance and formation of complex organic molecules in the universe. (Nanowerk News) A team of chemists ...

A new front has opened in the battle over space shuttle Discovery, and the fight has made its way to the Justice Department. The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from ...

Introduction: the natural history of the heavens and the natural history of discovery -- Part I. Entrée: 1. The Pluto affair -- Part II. Narratives of Discovery: 2. Moons, rings, and asteroids: ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...