Recent scientific discoveries include the identification of an ancient Antarctic bird as the oldest 'modern' bird, revelations about moon canyons formed by asteroid impact, Chile's struggle with light ...

Ancient bird Vegavis iaai, unearthed near Antarctica, holds the record as oldest lineage ancestor of all current birds. Fossil predates asteroid strike by three million years. Scientific community ...

February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...

The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo is hosting the debut of Expedition Dinosaur: Into the Deep, a groundbreaking traveling display developed by Stage 9 Exhibits that dives into the marine reptiles, ...

Take advantage of a nocturne at Les Étincelles in the Palais de la découverte to observe the sky and Mimas, Saturn's ...

Take a road trip through Nevada to this moon-like crater used by NASA astronauts as a training ground to prepare them for the lunar landscape.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The lunar heart, created by the interplay of light and shadow, is visible once a month, just before our satellite reaches ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...