Like many animals that hibernate, fat-tailed lemurs do so because of a lack of available food. For them, that’s during the ...

Imagine you have just finished a delicious to-go meal or morning coffee, or used the last drop of moisturizer. Without thinking too hard, you may be ready to toss another container into the trash, ...

From hidden planets to invisible cosmic signals, some of the most important astronomical discoveries happened while scientists were chasing something else entirely.

Astronomers from South Africa have conducted multi-band observations of a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy known as UGCA 320.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

A decade before George Lucas flew off to a galaxy far, far away, International Rescue introduced a generation to the coolest ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

A good map should help you find your way around, teach you something about geography or give you a sense of place. But some ...

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...