It is easy to imagine the moon as an atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting Earth. However, while...
Science & Astronomy
Monday, Aug. 19 brings the start of another major political convention in Chicago. And that night, skywatchers...
On August 2, 1932, Carl Anderson, a young professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), first...
In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the...
Scientists have long wondered why the hot soup of charged particles in our sun’s atmosphere gets hotter...
Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble...
A newly released image shows a colorful haze glowing above the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Atacama...
Could the moon soon be home to frozen biological samples of Earth’s endangered creatures? New research suggests...
The universe may teem with tiny alien microbes. After all, scientists suspect such primitive organisms could even...
Over two days the sun launched a barrage of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — expulsions of plasma...
