Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

In the medieval period, when Arabic chroniclers recorded eclipses, they usually noted concurrent deaths of rulers. And in Europe, a solar eclipse in 1133 was so closely associated with the 1135 death ...

NASA shared some new infrared images of the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet this week, showing the visitor brightening up in a dramatic outburst while exiting a solar system. The images were taken by the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the Hipparchus star catalog that had ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...

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On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Huygens remains the first and only landing in any location in the outer solar system, the furthest distance from Earth a ...

Astronomers have found a compact new cluster of objects inside the Kuiper belt, which is a distant band of icy bodies at the edge of our solar system beyond Neptune. The cluster sits 4.0 billion miles ...

Life on small islands often comes with unique difficulties, from the growing impacts of climate change to the burden of expensive energy. Many remote Pacific nations still depend heavily on fossil ...