From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Southeastern Turkey, 12,000 years ago. At this point in time, at least according to our most current understanding, hunter-gatherers moved across the land, hunting suddenly extinct beasts such as the ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth! Now, new research from some of those same astronomers suggests that ...

A team of astronomers used an "Earth-sized super telescope" to detect an object that emits no light, via gravitational ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

The focus on Indian knowledge systems in the UGC’s proposed mathematics curriculum is better suited to other disciplines such ...

For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to move the moai using wooden rollers and sledges. This narrative, popularized ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...