Scorpions are one of many animals that appear to glow under ultraviolet (UV) light. Scientists are finding that photoluminescence is more common than previously suspected. Shine an ultraviolet ...

An asteroid over three football fields in size, designated 387746 (2003 MH4), is set to pass Earth closely tomorrow. (Image: Freepik) A giant asteroid – more than three football fields wide – is set ...

Geologist Michael Ackerson holds a sample from Canada's Acasta Gneiss formation, home to some of the oldest rocks on the planet. Michael Ackerson We know Earth is old. Scientists estimate that our ...

Peter Quadrino would occasionally host Finnegans Wake reading groups at the Consulate General of Ireland in Austin. In 1939, Irish author James Joyce published Finnegans Wake, a piece of literature ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023. Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023. Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return capsule ...