The Sun has just dropped its latest album. With all the boiling and bubbling gases, our closest star is a seriously noisy ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

A vast project tracing the history of mathematics reveals that this column is brought to you thanks in part to an illustrious ...

"To Be or Not to Be": The Ernst Lubitsch World War II comedy starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny is about a couple in an acting troupe who befuddle Nazis in an attempt to stop a list of members of ...

Have you read on social media about the “once in 396 billion years” planetary alignment happening on Jan. 25? Guess what? Social media is not reliable. Here’s what’s really going on — and why you ...

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For stargazers and wildlife watchers, monoculars can be an effective alternative to telescopes or binoculars. Here's how they work. Want to bring the cosmos closer without breaking the bank or ...

While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced a catastrophic malfunction. By Kenneth Chang The successful flight ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding ...