Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

Learn how rainy and cold weather may be linked with joint pain, impacting those with arthritis or other musculoskeletal ...

Learn about the new deep-sea species discovered in the Southern Ocean, including a "death-ball" sponge that uses a deadly ...

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...

Learn about vampire spiders and their love of human blood, which they're able to salvage from blood-carrying mosquitoes.

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us understand how many Earth-like planets there are, too.

Learn about the mummified dinosaurs that have had their features preserved in a layer of clay after being submerged in floodwaters 66 million years ago.

The reason people might think Earth has a second moon is due to a celestial body named 2025 PN7 that was spotted in August by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS observatory. It isn’t abnormal for astronomers to ...

Earth's quasi-moons are not actually moons, but temporary asteroids that eventually leave Earth’s orbit JPL-Caltech/NASA A new "quasi-moon" named 2025 PN7 has been discovered ... known ...

Space.com editor-in-chief Tariq Malik gives you a peek at the biggest piece of Mars discovered on Earth. Currently on display ...