In an eruption of amazing magnitude, the volatile star Proxima Centauri (our Sun's closest neighbor) has just belched out its biggest solar flare ever recorded...
By now we've all committed to memory the wild scene in 1993's Jurassic Park where a rampaging Tyrannosaurus rex is chasing down a gas-powered Jeep on...
Over 4,000 exoplanets — alien planets orbiting other stars — have been found by astronomers so far. There are a variety of ways to find them,...
Using what's really a pretty dang clever new technique, astronomers have discovered what appear to be two double-quasars (and possibly a third pair as well) billions...
While not exactly the most handsome brute on the primeval block, this new specimen of block-headed creature, officially named Llukalkan aliocranianus, prowled the...
NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected two more relatively large quakes on the Red Planet, and they came from the direction of a very interesting region...
For the first time, astronomers have obtained large-scale images of the cosmic web — the incredibly ancient scaffolding of dark matter and hydrogen gas out of...
Presented as a type of "global insurance policy" to preserve Earth's precious flora and fauna in a high-tech repository on the Moon, University of Arizona assistant...
We all recall the plaster cutaway models of the Earth in grammar school science class, with slices of our planet broken down into the simple components of crust,...
Every day in the late southern spring and summer, an astonishing elongated cloud forms around a gigantic volcano on Mars. This cloud appears every morning, grows...