A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

With 15,000 satellites crowding the sky and hundreds of thousands more planned, we may soon have a cataclysmic mess overhead.

UNL doctoral student Kierstin Blomberg was selected for the 2026 AMS Science Policy Colloquium, linking her atmospheric ...

Supermassive black holes literally don’t add up. Astrophysicists know it takes more time than is mathematically possible for ...

Artemis II’s journey around the moon, scheduled to conclude on Friday, has delivered stunning new images of our home world ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Last month, climate scientist and author Kate Marvel resigned from her position at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years, with temperatures rising at a higher rate since 2015 than in any previous decade on record, a new study showed. The Earth warmed ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...