Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

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The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

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Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Professor Clemency Montelle has won the Agnes Mary Clerke Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society.The Agnes Mary Clerke ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.