As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

A mother’s love is said to be pure and unconditional—a shield that protects her children from every harm. But what if that ...

Although Earth is saying goodbye to the spacecraft this year, Gaia’s observations will result in two more data releases by 2030. On 27 March this year, the European Space Agency (ESA ...

Once all of Gaia's data has been downloaded to Earth, work will begin on GR5, the final data release from the spacecraft. This will be a monster data dump containing stellar observations collected ...

Gaia has also discovered a new breed of black hole, including one with a mass of nearly 33 times the mass of the sun, hiding in the constellation Aquila, less than 2,000 light-years from Earth ...

It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than ... The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons; its provisional designation was the very catchy ...

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Astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole named Gaia BH3 hiding close to the earth, the third of its kind. All three were discovered by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

Look to the sky – and ask Bulldog nation for support – and one of Earth's quasi-moons gets a ... to choose Chilcutt's Cardea – the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions – to be the ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.