In 1217, a German monk looked to the starry southwest sky and noticed a normally faint star...
Science & Astronomy
Three scientists have won $100,000 for their work on new ways to study the large-scale structure of...
Submarines, it turns out, could have a big future in space exploration. The subsurface oceans of the...
On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After...
Socially vulnerable populations are disproportionately exposed to wildfires in the West, study finds
Socially vulnerable populations are disproportionately exposed to wildfires in the West, study finds
Fire damage in the city of Detroit, Oregon, and the Oregon Cascades can be seen in this...
China has a new wide-field telescope up and running. The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), which measures...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday (Sept. 17) to set up the Sept....
On Monday (Sept. 18), NASA confirmed that, after three failed attempts, its Curiosity Mars rover managed to...
OSIRIS-REx was the third mission in history to collect a sample from an asteroid and featured the...
Japan’s SLIM lunar lander has passed a first critical stage on its voyage to the moon. The...
