The fracture is likely caused by a pulsar that smashed into G359.13 at a speed between one million and two million miles per ...

SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding extraterrestrial life, past or present.

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A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through a thick blanket of ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...

Even after years of efforts, humans still have not been able to understand the planet and its phenomena. Thus, space as a ...

Long before modern sunscreens, Homo sapiens may have found natural ways to protect themselves from the sun’s dangerous rays.