A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

An international team of researchers announced that they have successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core from ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A family woke up and found their car windshield with a hole in it, but their curious son soon cracked the mystery— it was a ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

That will solve this once and for all,” Will Duffy said. “We need to go to Antarctica. I need to take a flat-Earther or two ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

"This is a promising sign that there continues to be new and exciting avenues to explore tidal disruption events and use them as probes of supermassive black holes." ...

The European Union funded Beyond EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) with support from nations across the ...