For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a ...

Here's a look at scientific discoveries and breakthroughs that made headlines in 2025, spanning space, biology, ecology, and ...

When the seven astronauts of the STS-116 mission lifted off in Space Shuttle Discovery on Dec. 9, 2006, they were setting off ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Beloit Public Library has received a $5,000 grant from the Ecolab Foundation to support the upcoming Discovery PLAYce project ...

Thanks to some old data and New Mexico researchers, we know of one more exoplanet in the Milky Way. A group of scientists at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the universe's earliest supernova. This event offers a rare glimpse into the early universe. It shows how ...

Zion National Park’s east side is getting a new gateway — with trails, education spaces, tribal partnerships and more. Take a ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

Discover how certain animals perceive the world without full color vision. This brief glimpse explores surprising species, ...