The Leonid meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through the debris trail of a comet, producing 10–15 meteors per hour in most years. Occasionally, the shower can become a spectacular meteor storm ...
The total solar eclipse on August 2, 2027, will be a spectacular, yet localized, event. While parts of Africa, the Middle ...
The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...
Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...
More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired “John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office,” a documentary about a daring ...
The goal of the Thirty Metre Telescope project is to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, studying black holes, ...
The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...
In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported that the soil's "stickiness" stems from a combination of extremely fine particles ...
A new scientific study is rewriting one of the most recognized origin stories in astronomy: how the Moon was formed may not ...
A new trick with light has now helped capture the sharpest-ever measurement of a disk around a nearby star, beta Canis ...