The planet Jupiter, a gas giant and the king of our Solar System, has just been measured as slightly smaller than what is ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to reconsider something they thought was settled: how big Jupiter actually is. New measurements show the solar system’s largest planet is ...

With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best candidates.

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

A tiny 3-millimetre crab has been discovered in Lakshadweep’s coral reefs. Named Galathea balasubramaniani, the species reveals how much of India’s marine biodiversity remains unexplored.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Towering over California’s Giant Forest, the 2,200-year-old General Sherman tree is the largest on Earth by volume. But how ...