Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the biggest, baddest things that ever roamed the planet. Yeah, dinosaurs. If a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What astronomers initially suspected to be a new exoplanet is ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

This celestial saga began almost 20 years ago. In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. Experts designated it ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are disturbing. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, a Chinese spacecraft passed ...

Fusion power has the potential to rewrite trillion-dollar energy markets, but first, startups have to prove their designs will work and won’t be too costly. Neither is easy, especially when ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological models predict, deepening a long-standing puzzle.

The space around Earth has become increasingly cluttered with decades of accumulated debris left over from rocket launches, derelict satellites and the occasional antisatellite weapon test—not to ...

SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to an unspecified and seemingly mysterious anomaly. The company revealed that a Starlink satellite ...

Thea Hail has shocked the naysayers, and stunned the whole world. Tuesday's "NXT" Women's North American Championship match saw the electrifying Hail meet the stalwart, experience Monroe, and in a ...