By August 1, 2025 The sky opened not only over Florida. It opened over my chest. I saw it live, on the screen, but with the ...

University of Maryland geophysicist Nicholas Schmerr and Smithsonian Senior Scientist Emeritus Thomas R. Watters identified ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomy has illuminated the mysterious dynamics of a binary star system, HD 135344 AB, where a giant planet was discovered orbiting the primary star— a star that had ...

There is anxiety and tension in the air, but it's not directed at you. Don't take any rude comments to heart; it is just the ...

As of 2025, the distances these spacecraft have travelled are staggering. Voyager 1, at 166,40 astronomical units (about 24,9 billion km from earth), is the most distant by a human made object ever.

At the heart of the challenge is the MicroChariot, a small, semi-autonomous lunar rover developed by NASA as a testbed for ...

As the Perseid Meteor Shower peaks this August, it offers a rare opportunity to witness cosmic motion live. With a moon phase ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

A new laboratory experiment uses a water tornado to simulate key processes in planet formation within protoplanetary discs.

By way of Capella and through similarly-inspired commentaries on Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, the idea of circumsolar motion for Mercury and Venus became a well-known and ...