The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

I realized immediately that this was something unusual,” biological sciences professor Silvia Pavan said of the discovery.

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...

The strange reproductive trait in these ants was discovered by the scientists after more than five years of extensive ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days.

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...