Dark matter is trending on Google because scientists have claimed to have directly observed dark matter for the first time, ...

A recent breakthrough in lunar exploration has revealed highly cohesive lunar soil at the Chang’e-6 landing site, offering ...

Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions.

JWST infrared technology pierces cosmic dust with unmatched clarity, revealing hidden star nurseries and structures no ...

When one thinks of astronomy, it’s easy to imagine equations on a chalkboard, late nights in physics labs or telescopes aimed ...

The time international students spend in U.S. graduate physics or astronomy programs to complete their PhD varies somewhat.

I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day, and she asked me a question about Earth’s rotation and that of the moon. When questions such as these come up, I try my best to keep the answers as ...

Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of a wizard, the ...

Editor’s Note (3/10/25): After a week of delays, NASA is hoping to launch SPHEREx and PUNCH on March 10 at 11:10 P.M. EDT, officials wrote in a statement. NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to ...

With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...

YORKVILLE - The Racine Astronomical Society Inc. will celebrate Astronomy Day by holding an open house from 4 to 11 p.m. April 28 at Modine-Benstead Observatory, Highway A and 63rd Drive. Visitors ...

What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of ...