
Space
A star called ‘Earendel’ could be the most distant ever seen
A thin red arc found in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows starlight from nearly 13 billion years ago.
By Liz Kruesi
A thin red arc found in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows starlight from nearly 13 billion years ago.
Different kinds of telescopes on Earth and in space help us to see all wavelengths of light. Some can even peer billions of years back in time.
The James Webb Space Telescope has been in the works for so long that new fields of science have emerged for it to study.
Take a trip back to the Mesozoic Era to explore how geologic events, ecosystems and evolution were connected during the so-called age of dinosaurs.
Two finger-sized pieces of stone drilled from a basalt rock are the first bits of Mars ready to be brought to Earth.
Humans are changing the world in profound ways. Some scientists think those changes have launched a new epoch in Earth’s history: the Anthropocene.
Tiny bdelloid rotifers awake from a 24,000-year slumber when freed from the Arctic permafrost.
These rotating threads of dark matter and galaxies stretch millions of light-years. Scientists want to know how their spin begins.
The asteroid collision initially reduced the diversity in what had been sunny tropical rainforests. In time, the forests would become permanently darker.
Diamond retains its structure even at extreme pressures, which could reveal how carbon behaves in the cores of some exoplanets.