The universe

Drought conditions expanded to record-breaking levels across the US during the month of October as temperatures also climbed to record highs.

There is a surprising link between what goes on near the black hole and the shape of the entire galaxy that surrounds it.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the first-ever "Einstein zig-zag," a distant quasar lensed six times by two precisely aligned galaxies that could help tackle a cosmological crisis.

Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying behemoth star wrapped in a death shroud of gas about to explode.

The Curiosity shows sulfur stones, with no explanation of how they occurred on the Martian surface.

Scientists may have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in space science, determining that supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to their huge sizes.

"We have been calling Uranus an ice giant, but we don't really know its nature."

The strength of dark energy in our universe is not optimized for forming stars, which means other universes might have a greater likelihood of producing life.