NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes ...

While there was no widespread damage reported in California as of Wednesday morning, the effects of the tsunami will likely ...

The inaugural Wavelength programme at Fringe by the Sea brings together a range of music documentaries with talks, DJ sets, live performances and more, writes Alistair Harkness ...

Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude ...

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has reached the end of its sun-like life. Cocooned inside the nebula, within its ...

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

The long-awaited legacy sequel turns Neeson’s whole career into one big joke — and it’s funny as hell Say what you will about ...

NASA and India’s ISRO have launched a cutting-edge Earth-observing satellite called NISAR, equipped with the most advanced ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant, waking briefly to feast ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new long-period radio transient, which received the ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and ...