Our Solar System, instead of traveling through empty space, is surrounded by clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers recently ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected.

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Nearby what was thought to be the oldest known astrological observatory in the Western Hemisphere, archaeologists discovered one even older. The site in the Casma Valley of Peru could be centuries ...

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

Mark Matney’s fresh hypothesis suggests that the Star of Bethlehem may have been a bright comet that briefly appeared to ...