We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the ...

In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

A major new JAMA study reveals that American children are dying at rates up to 80% higher than kids in other wealthy ...

In a groundbreakingrelease on July 7, 2025, NASA showcased extraordinary images from its Hubble and Webb space telescopes ...

The Duke Lemur Center joyfully unveiled its latest additions: three adorable baby lemurs born to a fat-tailed dwarf lemur ...

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

Dan was so small when he was born that his owner "could barely tell there was a puppy" inside the amniotic sac and he needed ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

Somehow, a little red dwarf star only one-fifth the size of the sun gave birth to an enormous baby — an exoplanet that is a little larger than Saturn, although it weighs about half as much as ...