The first planet ever found orbiting another star was detected in 1995, and it belonged to a class now known as…

A distant neutron star unexpectedly reawakened, unleashing a powerful X-ray surge that may reveal how the universe’s most extreme stars feed.…

Discovered in archival data, the newly identified exoplanet formed after the dinosaurs went extinct. In a finding that echoes science fiction,…

Firefighter turnout gear is designed to protect against extreme heat and hazards, but new research suggests some of that protection may…

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin interacting with…

Earth’s water may have survived its fiery beginnings by hiding deep within the mantle. Around 4.6 billion years ago, Earth bore…

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of…

A hidden “jack-in-the-box” mechanism inside T cells may hold the key to unlocking more powerful cancer immunotherapies. Over the last decade,…