Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. It is part of a group of planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

Today, A special 12 minute episode of CNN10: We'll take a look back at Hurricane Katrina-- as the nation marks 20 years since the deadly storm made landfall on the Gulf Coast. We'll break down what ...

Scientists have confirmed century-old predictions by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking after observing two black holes ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

An international group of neuroscientists joined forces to produce a landmark neural map, which revealed that decision-making lights up the entire brain.