New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate ...

People have been fascinated by fossils for centuries, from the days when strange bones were mistaken for dragon remains to [… ...

Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of Bristol have uncovered unusual behavior in Titan’s atmosphere for the first ...

Ahead of the Oct 6 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, we take a look back at UCSF's Nobel laueretes, their discoveries, ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, co-founded by UC Santa Barbara physicists, mark a major step in defining what dark matter can — and cannot — be ...

I’m not going to pretend these kitchen experiments won’t create a mess. They will. There will be vinegar on your floor, food ...

For scientists, though, one big mystery still remained. Although will-o’-the-wisps are not actual flames and occur at ambient ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

Discoveries that prove aliens have visited Earth The persistent human fascination with extraterrestrial life and the ...

Bizarre NASA discoveries that we’re not allowed to talk about (but we will) Space exploration consistently reveals phenomena ...