Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

High on a hill in Turkey, the world’s oldest temple may hide a cosmic secret. Did its builders align their pillars with ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

A small company from California has plans to harness the power of the Sun, redirecting its light much like ancient humans did ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...