Our solar system's famous "invader" might be as old as the Milky Way itself.

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

Arabs, Greeks, and Indians were among the earliest amateur astronomers who discovered many celestial phenomena. Scholars such ...

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of water on ancient Mars with "rippled textures" and "landslide debris" in the ...

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This breakthrough was ...

A 2025 astronaut photo shows a massif made of concentric mountain ridges in the Libyan desert.

PicII-503 is likely a second-generation star, born from the remnants of the very first stars, according to a new study ...

Primordial magnetic fields may help explain why measurements of the universe’s expansion do not agree. Scientists have long known that the universe is expanding, yet there is still no agreement on how ...

Dark matter and dark energy are mysteries that have confounded scientists for decades, even though they comprise 95% of the ...

So it’s India Gate in Delhi, Kashi Vishwanath in Banaras, Gandhi’s Ashram in Ahmedabad etc. The ‘clean slate’ clause then ...

The search for life on Mars involves the efforts of scientists from many different disciplines. An important aspect of that ...