For centuries, humans have looked to the stars, the oceans, and even the tiniest cells to answer one impossible question: why does life exist at all? From philosophers to physicis ...

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About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

On July 1, 2025, NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile spotted a fast moving dot, 3I/ATLAS, travelling at 61 kilometres per second.

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

On Wednesday morning, students at Willie Mae and Ecomet Burley Primary School had an out-of-this-world experience.

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...