The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...

When Tesla shareholders awarded CEO Elon Musk an unprecedented $1-trillion compensation package, it made international news (1) — and made him the top-paid CEO on the planet. In contrast, when ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

Swift has been circling Earth for 21 years. Without a rescue mission assembled in just nine months, it would burn up by ...

Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4, this year. The annual holiday marks the day the United States declared its independence from the British in 1776, which means that America will celebrate ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

On August 12, 2026, lucky viewers in and around Greenland, Iceland and Spain—weather allowing—will be able to see one of ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered ...

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...

A disused airport in Tasmania’s rugged West Coast will soon be home to an angular steel structure with a confronting purpose: ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...