A strange spider-like formation on one of Jupiter's moons may be the smoking gun in the search for extraterrestrial life in ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Hundreds of miles above the Earth, a new space race is unfolding. It began on 23 May 2019, when Elon Musk's Starlink launched ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

The seventh edition of the Global Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors say the worst ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles of our planet on Friday. That's as ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2025 — AIP’s 2026 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for leadership in physics is being awarded to Professor John ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones.