New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

At first glance, the Devil’s Hole looks unremarkable. Then you learn how deep it goes and how little we understand about it.

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

Deep in the Arctic Circle, there’s a man-made hole that once earned the nickname “the entrance to hell.” The Kola Superdeep ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.