Astronomers continue to discover worlds beyond Earth’s solar system, detecting hundreds of new ones each year in...
Science & Astronomy
Take a whiff. Smell on Earth The visual wonders of the universe range from awe-inspiring comets streaking...
We think of galaxies as ancient. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, formed 13.6 billion years ago,...
Scientists have used supercomputers to create a “synthetic universe” that will help predict what the next generation...
One of the most interesting events in visual astronomy, and certainly the fastest, occurs when the moon...
“Dark comets,” which are near-Earth asteroids that behave like comets and could contain water ice, have mostly...
Earth has broken temperature records for 13 consecutive months — with every month registering temperatures 1.5 degrees...
What started as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa more than two weeks ago has...
The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that dark matter is concentrated within the core of a nearby...
A highly anticipated NASA astrobiology mission is troubleshooting a serious issue just months before its planned liftoff....
