Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

“Picking up that same object that I’ve been holding so much on the space station and feeling it here on Earth was crazy to me ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

Paraglider Ben Lewis remembers spinning around wildly as he got pulled up higher and higher into the violent storm. That was ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

Scientists have officially spotted characteristics of superfluidity (a quantum fluid with zero viscosity) inside a ...

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...